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They were never the poster child for "employee centric" companies; they were just young, successful, made an awful lot of money and spent it. From this timefram
by skeeter2020 4y ago
They were never the poster child for "employee centric" companies; they were just young, successful, made an awful lot of money and spent it. From this timeframe Fog Creek was the defacto "developer first" company.
- hackernewds 4y agoDisagree. What is even "Fog creek"?
- sireat 4y agoJoel's blog was extremely influential so it put Fogcreek in the spotlight. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-steps-to-better-code/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s... There had to be early Google employees who read that. One could even argue that Joel and Jeff both having popular dev blogs drove the early adoption for Stack Overflow.