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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-brF6SUXbns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-brF6SUXbns Brutal and hilarious. Good deadpan. "Without a doubt Facebook is one of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-brF6SUXbns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-brF6SUXbns Brutal and hilarious. Good deadpan. "Without a doubt Facebook is one of the best offices I've worked in ... open office is like working in a warehouse, food is good, they have decent coffee."

stankypickle 7y ago
I crack up every time he says "I am an ex-google tech lead" in any of his videos. The subtlety of his delivery is exquisite.
harryf 7y ago
Wow. There is so much stuff here on the borderline of dystopian nightmare, e.g. how he describes how http://work.facebook.com http://work.facebook.com get's used as a popularity contest for decision making. It's almost exactly what David Eggers was describing in The Circle. Suddenly all those boring corporate workplaces pushing stuff in and out of an RDBMS look a lot more attractive...
- JacKTrocinskI 7y ago
  I work at a place that pushes stuff in and out of an RDBMS, life is good here.
  - fjp 7y ago
    I just interviewed at a small startup, but one that has real customers and hasn't needed to raise VC money. Some customers them millions to develop their platform features, others pay them just to use the platform as it is. No thrashing around for product-market fit, changing goals every week. Everyone I talked to seemed so... calm. It was surreal. At my current startup job people seem to take a weird sort of pride in how frazzled and overwhelmed they are.
    - ethbro 7y ago
      If you're in debt and not making money, at least you can have the decency to appear frazzled and overwhelmed...
  - masonic 7y ago
    Are they hiring?
    - Traubenfuchs 7y ago
      Yes they are. All across the world. Sadly, many of them already have (or plan to) do a "digital transformation". In a nutshell that means: Huge open space developer farms, firing old (expensive) engineers, forcing everything into Kubernetes, doing "sledgehammer agile (e.g. forced agile). This in turn leads to massive turnover.
      - rad_gruchalski 7y ago
        Data is the new gold.
fasicle 7y ago
His other videos are worth a watch as well, so funny! Reading the YouTube comments to his vids is very entertaining
aedron 7y ago
Is that an actual Facebook office? Chairs and tables that look like a Walmart closeout sale (for garden furniture)?

stankypickle 7y ago

I crack up every time he says "I am an ex-google tech lead" in any of his videos. The subtlety of his delivery is exquisite.

harryf 7y ago

Wow. There is so much stuff here on the borderline of dystopian nightmare, e.g. how he describes how http://work.facebook.com http://work.facebook.com get's used as a popularity contest for decision making. It's almost exactly what David Eggers was describing in The Circle. Suddenly all those boring corporate workplaces pushing stuff in and out of an RDBMS look a lot more attractive...

JacKTrocinskI 7y ago
I work at a place that pushes stuff in and out of an RDBMS, life is good here.
- fjp 7y ago
  I just interviewed at a small startup, but one that has real customers and hasn't needed to raise VC money. Some customers them millions to develop their platform features, others pay them just to use the platform as it is. No thrashing around for product-market fit, changing goals every week. Everyone I talked to seemed so... calm. It was surreal. At my current startup job people seem to take a weird sort of pride in how frazzled and overwhelmed they are.
  - ethbro 7y ago
    If you're in debt and not making money, at least you can have the decency to appear frazzled and overwhelmed...
- masonic 7y ago
  Are they hiring?
  - Traubenfuchs 7y ago
    Yes they are. All across the world. Sadly, many of them already have (or plan to) do a "digital transformation". In a nutshell that means: Huge open space developer farms, firing old (expensive) engineers, forcing everything into Kubernetes, doing "sledgehammer agile (e.g. forced agile). This in turn leads to massive turnover.
    - rad_gruchalski 7y ago
      Data is the new gold.

fasicle 7y ago

His other videos are worth a watch as well, so funny! Reading the YouTube comments to his vids is very entertaining

aedron 7y ago

Is that an actual Facebook office? Chairs and tables that look like a Walmart closeout sale (for garden furniture)?