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I was told by people that work for FAANG that each company reserves some number of first class seats for the daily SFO to China flights specifically for this re
by baby_souffle 3y ago
I was told by people that work for FAANG that each company reserves some number of first class seats for the daily SFO to China flights specifically for this reason.
If there an issue, some engineer responsible for the part can be in the factory in under 24h
- awinter-py 3y agoonly 1 of faang manufactures consumer-facing hardware? could see why AAPL does this, but the others?
- Philpax 3y agoMeta (Quest 2/3/Pro, Meta Portal), Google (Pixel, home automation hardware, much more), Amazon (Echo, Kindle, Ring), and Microsoft (Surface lineup and much more) all manufacture hardware.
- awinter-py 3y agoah point taken though I assume some of these are made by OEMs
- baby_souffle 3y ago> though I assume some of these are made by OEMs They are. The "no, _they're_ the idiots" rivalry between engineer / manufacturing is almost as old as time. A design team almost never gets to just "hand off" the files to the manufacturing side without some amount of issue/fix iteration happening. It's not just the physical engineering of a device, though. If the $thing that is responsible for QA/Test or even programming keys into $widget goes down, the factory has to stop and that's _expensive_ so you get the guy that designed it out there to fix it _asap_.
- ilyt 3y agoI don't think you know what those companies do...