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At Facebook now. In general, people who have been here the longest are the dullest. The good, creative ones leave by approx 2 years.
by 100-xyz 7y ago
At Facebook now. In general, people who have been here the longest are the dullest. The good, creative ones leave by approx 2 years.
- draw_down 7y agoSome people go to work to get paid, and are less interested in dazzling others. (Facebook strikes me as a great option for such people, by the way.) It would be fine with me if someone considered me dull; I decided long ago that I care less about being interesting than being interested.
- curyous 7y agoIf you leave within 2 years you never have to experience the long term effects of your decisions so there are a lot of valuable things you never learn.
- ip26 7y agoMaybe that's how you stay 'creative', because you never have to face the consequences of your creativity :)
- tasuki 7y agoWherever I worked, mostly the more competent people were the ones leaving. Isn't that to be expected?
- yxhuvud 7y agoCompetent people want to work with (and for!) other competent people. When they do, and the job is decent otherwise, then they can stay a long while.
- 100-xyz 7y agoWow. I am getting down voted for saying this?
- thunkshift1 7y agoHow do you downvote someone? Asking for a friend
- fosstax 7y agoYou need 500+ karma on your account to downvote comments.
- hodgesrm 7y agoThat's not true of the Facebook people I know. They include some of the best engineers I've ever met. (No other connection to Facebook, just a personal judgment based on their externally visible work.) More generally I find that different people work effectively at different timescales. Some of the big movers in the industry have achieved phenomenal things by focusing on one problem for decades. Definitely true for databases, which is what I work on.
- marcinzm 7y agoBoring isn't a bad quality for an engineering organization. Chasing trends and doing "cool" things and trying to be clever tends to not create good long term engineering products.