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Is it the new normal to vent about your job on a public blog post, talking about how it's not very exciting and how it involves mostly "poop-smithing," and how

by anbop 7y ago

Is it the new normal to vent about your job on a public blog post, talking about how it's not very exciting and how it involves mostly "poop-smithing," and how you'd be thinking of quitting if you didn't have other stuff you were doing, and for the company to be totally OK with that?

usgroup 7y ago
Tbh it’s probably healthy. I think lots of people that have a good handle on the abstract world have a constant sense of what could be if only X was different about the real world. It’s an infuriating internal battle that lots of others can relate to so makes for pleasurable reading. For companies to resent it... I think you may have a point. It’s hardly great PR and actually gives you a good reason to discount whatever the marketing says.
baron_harkonnen 7y ago
A long time ago HN used to be a place where people had a general distrust of large corporations and it was much more impressive to be working for an ambitious startup than being highly paid an a large company just grinding out the status quo. I'm really happy to see posts like this here. Jeremy has done lost of great work and so it's somewhat refreshing to see that even someone like him struggles at times at a place like google. It's also important because it show that FAANG isn't all it's cracked up to be and so it is a completely legitimate career path to remain in small startups, maybe getting paid less, but having more fun getting paid. I've worked at both the big and small and this post definitely resonates with me and certainly makes it easier to go into work knowing that I'm not the crazy one.
- islon 7y ago
  > It's also important because it show that FAANG isn't all it's cracked up to be and so it is a completely legitimate career path to remain in small startups I don't think there's just these 2 options. There's the other 90% in between.
dlphn___xyz 7y ago
its pretty common and it seems to be getting popular with sites like blind and fishbowl

by anbop 7y ago

usgroup 7y ago

Tbh it’s probably healthy. I think lots of people that have a good handle on the abstract world have a constant sense of what could be if only X was different about the real world. It’s an infuriating internal battle that lots of others can relate to so makes for pleasurable reading. For companies to resent it... I think you may have a point. It’s hardly great PR and actually gives you a good reason to discount whatever the marketing says.

baron_harkonnen 7y ago

A long time ago HN used to be a place where people had a general distrust of large corporations and it was much more impressive to be working for an ambitious startup than being highly paid an a large company just grinding out the status quo. I'm really happy to see posts like this here. Jeremy has done lost of great work and so it's somewhat refreshing to see that even someone like him struggles at times at a place like google. It's also important because it show that FAANG isn't all it's cracked up to be and so it is a completely legitimate career path to remain in small startups, maybe getting paid less, but having more fun getting paid. I've worked at both the big and small and this post definitely resonates with me and certainly makes it easier to go into work knowing that I'm not the crazy one.

islon 7y ago
> It's also important because it show that FAANG isn't all it's cracked up to be and so it is a completely legitimate career path to remain in small startups I don't think there's just these 2 options. There's the other 90% in between.

dlphn___xyz 7y ago

its pretty common and it seems to be getting popular with sites like blind and fishbowl