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"Unduly optimistic" might be not only more charitable but fairer. The syndrome is not limited to Silicon Valley or to the 21st Century. I remember very clearly
by cafard 4y ago
"Unduly optimistic" might be not only more charitable but fairer.
The syndrome is not limited to Silicon Valley or to the 21st Century. I remember very clearly my father almost sixty years ago remarking with disgust that some scientific organization had given an award to Union Carbide, which was notorious for bad treatment of its scientists.
- trash3 4y agoEven that sounds harsh. The Faang engineers are sociopaths chasing top dollar. The engineers at spacex are the other side of the coin. HN berating people for not getting their worth laughable seeing how a mediocre engineer still makes more than 80 percent of the population.