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These giant companies employ/stockpile vast numbers of elite programmers who they don’t really need. So they build other things. Nice work if you can get it.
by tenbino 6y ago
These giant companies employ/stockpile vast numbers of elite programmers who they don’t really need.
So they build other things. Nice work if you can get it.
- mattiel 6y agoThey are probably hired to do front-end work to make things look nice and be creative at the same time. I personally think that Stripe is on point with design. Which attracts more customers. You don’t need elite programmers to only do the “important stuff”. Visuals are important too.
- return1 6y agoThat tells me their job is easier than we think, so they may face ‘disruption’ soon
- akhilcacharya 6y agoStripe isn't "giant" but it does seem to do a lot of this. They have job postings for their Ruby type checker... Meanwhile my company is giant by any stretch of the imagination but I've never seen projects like this. It's a cultural thing borne out of the elite circles Stripe folks come from.
- cogburnd02 6y agoThat's basically how the phone company gave us Unix.