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You are talking about the IT-people, right? How much do they handle media questions, PR related to global IT security events?

peoplefromibiza 4y ago
> You are talking about the IT-people, right? absolutely not. > How much do they handle media questions, PR related to global IT security events? You don't need thousand people for that and It's their job anyway! Listen, I come from what the average American would call "a socialist" country, at least regarding the labour market and organization. I understand the social part of employing more people than necessary, it's a kind of redistribution that many countries won't or can't do through proper taxation. I also understand that sometimes it's about resilience, two of everything is better than single points of failure. But, it's ironic that these observations come from the POV of an American company. It's ironic that people are leaving Twitter because Musk is asking them to work hard, meaning they aren't actually doing it, according to his standards (he's a terrible boss, no doubt!), but also meaning that Twitter is probably doing so bad because they focused on the wrong thing, like Facebook with the meta fiasco. The American dream is not about 28 days of paid vacation, maternity leave, life-work balance, it's about making as much money as you can in the fastest way possible. In its original formulation In such a country the talents, energy and perseverance of a person ... have far greater opportunity to display than in monarchies You want a better life balance, better working hours, less staying in the office and more paid time to raise your kids? Come to Europe! For much less money of course. Because you can't have both. So yeah, it might be easier to do something with 3 people than one, but most of the time too many people are enemy of the efficiency. You know what took the most part of upgrading the log4j incident where I work? Coordination between too many levels of hierarchy. That is actually the worst part of working in large companies, that's what actually stifle innovation and paralyzes them. Twitter was already doing bad, it's been doing bad for years. I left Twitter (as a user) 5 years ago, because it was already terrible. I'm no Musk fan at all, but at least he's making things clear: if that's the end result people are used to, we don't need that many people to achieve it, we simply need motivated people (by money).
- Cryptonic 4y ago
  Just about one aspect of your post: You must see the income in relation to living cost and benefits in high paying areas in the US. As SDE employee in Germany you might earn 60k-120k. Where the end of the range is more often found in larger companies with about 10y+ of experience. But you have health care that never puts you in a position where you have to decide between ruin or death of a family member, what can be done will be done even e.g. if you need brain cancer be burned out with a particle accelerator (no joke). You will never be in a position where you instantly are ruined when you loose your job (1y at 70% income and at least social care later). You are forced to have an extend of retirement solution/insurance, which costs, but at least you cannot mess it up or loose in when you are insolvent. So this stuff I call the true freedom, not gun ownership or freedom of speech that goes to far. Being free of crushing fear about your family health and future risks, this is freedom in Germany and other European countries. - This freedom also reduces violence and crime you are confronted with a lot, because the motivation or psychic conditions for it are much less common. So for me Germany is the perfect place for raising a family imo. But maybe yes there might be a reduced chance to become really rich here as a SDE

peoplefromibiza 4y ago

> You are talking about the IT-people, right? absolutely not. > How much do they handle media questions, PR related to global IT security events? You don't need thousand people for that and It's their job anyway! Listen, I come from what the average American would call "a socialist" country, at least regarding the labour market and organization. I understand the social part of employing more people than necessary, it's a kind of redistribution that many countries won't or can't do through proper taxation. I also understand that sometimes it's about resilience, two of everything is better than single points of failure. But, it's ironic that these observations come from the POV of an American company. It's ironic that people are leaving Twitter because Musk is asking them to work hard, meaning they aren't actually doing it, according to his standards (he's a terrible boss, no doubt!), but also meaning that Twitter is probably doing so bad because they focused on the wrong thing, like Facebook with the meta fiasco. The American dream is not about 28 days of paid vacation, maternity leave, life-work balance, it's about making as much money as you can in the fastest way possible. In its original formulation In such a country the talents, energy and perseverance of a person ... have far greater opportunity to display than in monarchies You want a better life balance, better working hours, less staying in the office and more paid time to raise your kids? Come to Europe! For much less money of course. Because you can't have both. So yeah, it might be easier to do something with 3 people than one, but most of the time too many people are enemy of the efficiency. You know what took the most part of upgrading the log4j incident where I work? Coordination between too many levels of hierarchy. That is actually the worst part of working in large companies, that's what actually stifle innovation and paralyzes them. Twitter was already doing bad, it's been doing bad for years. I left Twitter (as a user) 5 years ago, because it was already terrible. I'm no Musk fan at all, but at least he's making things clear: if that's the end result people are used to, we don't need that many people to achieve it, we simply need motivated people (by money).

Cryptonic 4y ago
Just about one aspect of your post: You must see the income in relation to living cost and benefits in high paying areas in the US. As SDE employee in Germany you might earn 60k-120k. Where the end of the range is more often found in larger companies with about 10y+ of experience. But you have health care that never puts you in a position where you have to decide between ruin or death of a family member, what can be done will be done even e.g. if you need brain cancer be burned out with a particle accelerator (no joke). You will never be in a position where you instantly are ruined when you loose your job (1y at 70% income and at least social care later). You are forced to have an extend of retirement solution/insurance, which costs, but at least you cannot mess it up or loose in when you are insolvent. So this stuff I call the true freedom, not gun ownership or freedom of speech that goes to far. Being free of crushing fear about your family health and future risks, this is freedom in Germany and other European countries. - This freedom also reduces violence and crime you are confronted with a lot, because the motivation or psychic conditions for it are much less common. So for me Germany is the perfect place for raising a family imo. But maybe yes there might be a reduced chance to become really rich here as a SDE