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I think this applies to most companies. What they write in their blogs is a shiny, optimistic, limited view of the best part of their best system or similar. On
by midrus 6y ago
I think this applies to most companies. What they write in their blogs is a shiny, optimistic, limited view of the best part of their best system or similar. Once inside, things are never that great.
I myself was very ashamed of a company I worked for (also SF based) blog post... even the author of the post was a very well known open source maintainer of many libraries of a very popular programming language. Reading the posts in the blog was like.... I cannot believe we lie this big... internally things were just crap, and what the blog post made look like it was the norm, was just a side project of this person.
So, never trust companies blog posts by default.
- mlthoughts2018 6y agoI agree. I once worked for a company that wrote a blog post on reinventing and upgrading A/B tests, but the ugly truth was that the company couldn’t run an A/B test to save its life. Every A/B test was a disaster, there were fragmented different frameworks for A/B tests in different parts of the product, with inconsistent and unreliable data, and the core clickstream ingestion system that was the foundation for any possible way of testing would crash and go down for hours every few weeks, and product management would just silently ignore any effects of missing data or correlation between failures in different product features. Even though we had a team of statistical researchers, they were treated as if legit stats 101 concerns were just ivory tower academic hair splitting and often were silently omitted from being in A/B test design, recap or decision meetings, which were instead run by product managers with no stats training. I remember interviewing a candidate once who said he was excited about the role because of that A/B testing blog post, and I just thought - geez what a completely soulless bait and switch ploy.
- fma 6y agoCan we maybe get a list of company blogs that are legit? As in they practice what they preach? Facebook, Amazon, Netflix Google, Microsoft comes to the top of my head but someone is free to burst my bubble.
- staticassertion 6y agoCloudflare's blogs seem far less markety and far more about sharing interesting technical wins.
- noir_lord 6y agoI've dealt with cloudflare people semi-regulary recently and they seem to know their shit, they also (from an outside perspective) seem to have a really good culture. Questions get answered quickly and with a level of detail appropriate to the person asking. Really impressive given the usual "Enterprise(TM)" level of support from most service suppliers.
- spiralx 6y agoFigma and Instagram have had good articles on their blogs, although I'm not a regular follower of either.
- gigantecmedia 6y agoagree, figma and sketch have fairly good and interesting articles. used both of them, love their products and vision.