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This comment says more about you than it does about Plaid. Their "insane" design met business requirements successfully enough to grow them into a multi-billion

This comment says more about you than it does about Plaid. Their "insane" design met business requirements successfully enough to grow them into a multi-billion dollar company. Did you consider the likely (and more charitable) explanation that they were aware their design was "bad", but had higher priorities until now? If I were you, I'd be pulling your comment before it harms your reputation any further. :)

GordonS 7y ago
> Did you consider the likely (and more charitable) explanation that they were aware their design was "bad" I think marketing and VC valuations grew them into a multi-billion dollar company; whether they remain so, to a large part relies on how fast they burn through VC cash - so, not looking too good on that front... No even half-way competent engineer would come up with such a complex, unperformant solution to a simple problem - I think a higher priority should be hiring engineers who actually have a clue what they're doing. As for meeting business requirements... while this might have worked for a while, it was plainly not a good way to meet them, and given Plaid are in the banking sector, really doesn't bode well for the future (I'm having flashforwards already to security breaches, plaintext passwords etc...).
- ubu7737 7y ago
  Downvoted for angering the VC class...
ubu7737 7y ago
> If I were you, I'd be pulling your comment before it harms your reputation any further. :) This is the douchiest thing I've seen all day. This trust-fund kid thinks he's Donald John Trump. It is flat-out hilarious to hear that a supposed tech company had more pressing concerns than technology.
rockostrich 7y ago
>multi-billion dollar company WeWork is a "multi-billion dollar company" in the same way that Plaid is. Private funding valuations don't really mean anything anymore.

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This comment says more about you than it does about Plaid. Their "insane" design met business requirements successfully enough to grow them into a multi-billion

by sicromoft 7y ago

GordonS 7y ago
> Did you consider the likely (and more charitable) explanation that they were aware their design was "bad" I think marketing and VC valuations grew them into a multi-billion dollar company; whether they remain so, to a large part relies on how fast they burn through VC cash - so, not looking too good on that front... No even half-way competent engineer would come up with such a complex, unperformant solution to a simple problem - I think a higher priority should be hiring engineers who actually have a clue what they're doing. As for meeting business requirements... while this might have worked for a while, it was plainly not a good way to meet them, and given Plaid are in the banking sector, really doesn't bode well for the future (I'm having flashforwards already to security breaches, plaintext passwords etc...).
- ubu7737 7y ago
  Downvoted for angering the VC class...
ubu7737 7y ago
> If I were you, I'd be pulling your comment before it harms your reputation any further. :) This is the douchiest thing I've seen all day. This trust-fund kid thinks he's Donald John Trump. It is flat-out hilarious to hear that a supposed tech company had more pressing concerns than technology.
rockostrich 7y ago
>multi-billion dollar company WeWork is a "multi-billion dollar company" in the same way that Plaid is. Private funding valuations don't really mean anything anymore.