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> Sounds like the engineers were just entertaining themselves with shiny toys rather than solving the problems they actually had. More like, sounds like manage
by randmeerkat 5y ago
> Sounds like the engineers were just entertaining themselves with shiny toys rather than solving the problems they actually had.
More like, sounds like management was trying to get as much money as quickly as they could from their VCs before it all imploded. The engineers aren’t at fault that management didn’t have a real product or vision.
- mrkurt 5y agoWe all know plenty of engineers who want to build things for inappropriate scale. The company was a disaster, but part of building a disastrous company is hiring the engineers who want to make everything webscale and have no sense of pragmatism.
- randmeerkat 5y ago> The company was a disaster, but part of building a disastrous company is hiring the engineers who want to make everything webscale and have no sense of pragmatism. I mean, the engineers held up their side of the bargain. They were hired for webscale, the company got webscale… Now, if this was a more strategic startup, that had tried to hire pragmatic engineers, that insisted on webscale, I would blame the engineers. However, in this case, I think it’s pretty clear that the engineers did exactly what they were hired to do.