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> I don’t want to work in a place where any budget cuts result in people saying there is no fun to be had anymore. Small and scrappy is fun for many. I don't w
by hackerlight 4y ago
> I don’t want to work in a place where any budget cuts result in people saying there is no fun to be had anymore.
Small and scrappy is fun for many. I don't want to work in a megacorp with forced annual trips organized by a large HR department. I want to work on and build interesting things with smart colleagues who are similarly engaged and motivated.
- yojo 4y agoThe folks at Google are already working at a megacorp. That small and scrappy ship sailed two decades ago. If I had to guess, most Google engineers aren’t working on cool greenfield stuff, they’re maintaining and extending huge legacy projects with decades worth of cruft, where minuscule changes take days to land. If you want great engineers to work on that stuff, you need to pay them and shower them with perks. Otherwise they’ll move somewhere small and scrappy that’s actually fun.