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This is like condemning carpenters for bad architecture. The software people have little role in deciding what efforts get funded at Facebook. This came straig
by nitwit005 4y ago
This is like condemning carpenters for bad architecture. The software people have little role in deciding what efforts get funded at Facebook.
This came straight from the very top at Facebook.
- zaroth 4y agoYou don’t think Facebook hired any software architects as part of that $13B? You think Zuck needs to fully specify what he wants the company to build? Or should a company be able to set out a goal - “make extremely compelling VR/AR experiences for consumers and businesses” and provide the funding and the mandate to hire the best and the brightest… and reasonably expect that $10+ billion later to have something remotely interesting to show for it?
- nitwit005 4y agoSoftware architects, as the name implies, architect what engineering is asked to build. They don't decide what gets built. They have managers for that: "A product manager is a visionary who guides new product ideas from an initial concept to a full-blown product launch. Along the way, we collaborate with world-class engineers and designers..." (Pulled from Meta's jobs page)