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This sounds like more anti-dev propaganda. I agree the salaries were ridiculous but I believe Meta's goal was to overcome what was probably incompetent manageme
by sublinear 4y ago
This sounds like more anti-dev propaganda. I agree the salaries were ridiculous but I believe Meta's goal was to overcome what was probably incompetent management and stifled/censored creative teams with highly motivated developers. Clearly that doesn't work.
I'm imagining some equally ridiculous meetings where the devs were laughing at the pathetic ideas cooked up by their bosses just as much as they laughed all the way to the bank.
- 908B64B197 4y ago> I agree the salaries were ridiculous Were they? They were going after the best engineers in the VR space. What they did with the Quest was ahead of everyone else.
- deepzn 4y agoIt is part of the "overpaid software engineers, and foolish tech companies" narrative. A person I know got hired as a senior dev in VR there 2 years ago, and he's one of the most talented devs I know.
- sublinear 4y agoAbsolutely no doubt Meta hired some awesome engineers. What a waste. It's like having a Lamborghini in the driveway with no gas and no plans to ever take it to the track.
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- HyperSane 4y agorich people who live off of investments seem to really hate it when compensation for labor gets high enough to allow labor to live the same lifestyle that they do.