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My company puts the Slack message count on the website. Scroll down to the bottom. https://www.altaml.com/team/ https://www.altaml.com/team/ It isn't used as
by MattGaiser 6y ago
My company puts the Slack message count on the website. Scroll down to the bottom.
https://www.altaml.com/team/ https://www.altaml.com/team/
It isn't used as part of management or anything so it is just a fun little fact, but I was surprised to learn that such a number was readily available. It shouldn't have been surprising, but it was when it clicked in my head that Slack tracks you as much as any other app.
- SkyPuncher 6y agoI do not understand why any company would put that on their website. It's absolutely meaningless in a vacuum. To me, it tells me "do not apply, we care about meaningless metrics"
- strombofulous 6y agoIt's put next to "# of AltaMLers who think strawberry is the best Bubly flavour" and "% of AltaMLers who think pineapple is an acceptable pizza topping", I don't think it's supposed to be taken super seriously
- SkyPuncher 6y agoYea, but those are clearly fun and playful stats.
- strombofulous 6y agoYeah that's what I'm saying. All of them (except the one about # of countries) are just "jokes"
- MattGaiser 6y agoI don't think anyone cares about the statistic. It is probably just an easily available datapoint.
- robswc 6y agoIt's just a little "creative" thing at the bottom of the site. I think its cool. In the context of the other "fun" stats, it makes sense. If they said something like "We take slack VERY seriously, here's the numbers to prove it" I would agree.
- donmcronald 6y agoI honestly don't know if more messages would be considered better or worse. Which is it?
- MattGaiser 6y agoI don't think it is considered either way. My surprise was in them knowing it so trivially.
- Aeolun 6y agoPineapple is definitely an acceptable pizza flavoring. I cannot see how this company consists of 33% heretics.
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- prepend 6y agoThose measures are not that useful at all without a denominator. Do you have 10,000 employees or 2? 2880 slack messages means nothing without knowing the denominator. Same for countries of origin. I wonder who sees these and thinks anything other than “what kind of dipshits think this matters?” Although, I must think that a lot of the people I know of who are buying ML consultants would likely think that counting and displaying random metrics without context is data science. So maybe it works well.