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Analytics, logging, "Artificial Intelligence", the latest Fad in devops/application development, System administration duties, help desk duties, hiring/intervie
by ben_jones 7y ago
Analytics, logging, "Artificial Intelligence", the latest Fad in devops/application development, System administration duties, help desk duties, hiring/interviewing duties (you don't get to 1500+ without A LOT of this!), the refactoring after the clusterf* of using the latest Fad in devops/application development.
"BIG" data pipelines, managing an Elasticsearch cluster, PM for the design of app 1, PM for the design of App 2, (for probably dozens of apps), QA teams, Design teams, Localization teams, Accessibility teams, SEO and marketing automation teams, teams to build out their CRM, and the all important management layer to interface all these teams together!
This, this ladies and gentlemen, is how Silicon Valley changes the world.
- reustle 7y agoTotally agree, but I guess this is how they tried to brand themselves as a tech company and not just an office space provider.
- api 7y agoA small team could have written all the software for WeWork to do what it actually does. Each location could run it on an Intel NUC or similar. Central cloud could be moderately sized, maybe a dozen instances. That would be efficient, but ironically it would not have attracted so much investment because fewer buzzwords. It would have been a better way to run a business that sells office space but a less effective way to run a business that sells its stock. In a top heavy severely demand constrained economy it is far more profitable to sell stock than goods or services.
- delfinom 7y agoAnd with all of that, they couldn't even setup their wework networks more securely, even as little as blocking device discovery and port scanning.