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> In spite of these truths, people flock to working for TSLA and CosmosY. I often wonder how many of the people working at cool places are doing cool stuff and
by helsinkiandrew 5y ago
> In spite of these truths, people flock to working for TSLA and CosmosY.
I often wonder how many of the people working at cool places are doing cool stuff and how many are doing the same things as elsewhere.
Does it help working in a place building autonomous cars, rockets if you’re not doing that, but doing the same web dev or door knob release software that you could do in a hedge fund, accountancy firm, or evil corp.
Anyone have any experience?
- ironman1478 5y agoAutonomous cars make everything difficult and therefore pretty fun, if difficulty is fun :). Let's talk about door knob release. Ok, so now that there isn't a person driving the car, how do you authenticate that the person at the door is who it should be? All of a sudden you've opened a whole can of worms with that one question. The answer to that problem is gonna be a lot more complex than an electronic lock on a house door. Even web dev is interesting. lots of bespoke visualization and debugging tools had to be created from scratch because nothing on the market solved the problems that autonomous cars pose. Look at webviz created by cruise as an example.
- helsinkiandrew 5y agoYes but my point was (in relation to the article) that a lot of the work in cool companies is the same as that done in 'non cool' companies. Does working in a cooler company when you're doing the same stuff that your buddy down the road in the non cool company is doing make it feel a 'better' place to work. Using my bad examples - if developing the same door knob release system or dealer booking system - feels better because you're doing it in Tesla than say Ford or Skoda? And how much
- ironman1478 5y agoMy point was that it's not the same? A lot of problems are harder for a robotaxi than a personal vehicle.
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