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The whole post is gold. - managers asked how it was possible we saved that much without help from them - asked to prepare slides - asked many times on how it
by tehlike 3y ago
The whole post is gold.
- managers asked how it was possible we saved that much without help from them
- asked to prepare slides
- asked many times on how it happened
- had to roll it out slowly to make it look like they did it over time incrementally vs one small toggle
- asked for a raise due to impact and did not happen.
Sir, for your sake, apply to a FAANG or something, you'll be at least taken care of better.
Also please implement Twitter card metadata in your blog so it looks better on twitter :)
- pavlov 3y ago> “please implement Twitter card metadata in your blog so it looks better on twitter” Didn’t Xitter recently remove the display of all external site metadata except the image?
- tehlike 3y agoYeah people use image interestingly these days though See, for example: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1717768637799706922 https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1717768637799706922
- herpdyderp 3y agoMaybe my friends are all just bad devs but I don't hear of people getting treated well at FAANG anymore. (Though I haven't heard anything about Netlifx recently.)
- tehlike 3y agoMaybe they are busy working - after while layoffs everyone is working a bit more to say the truth
- y-c-o-m-b 3y agoI'm at a FAANG, still getting treated like shit. The problems outlined in the article are 1000x worse in a FAANG and you'll have the same 99% of the people that have drank the proverbial kool-aid telling you everything is great and it's supposed to function like this. At least you get paid more for it though.
- tehlike 3y agoTrue, and not true. It's nuanced. It depends a lot on the org. I have moved from admob (google ads) to robotics to facebook, and worked with different orgs, and have seen differences.
- Tao3300 3y agoI think we just keep the N in there so it's less awkward to say.
- delecti 3y agoFacebook is now Meta, Google is now Alphabet, Netflix is now just another independent movie/TV studio. FAANG has become a term entirely independent of what it originally stood for (also "MAAA" doesn't have the same ring to it).
- Groxx 3y agoI think it works. Just think of it as a family with a troublemaker kid. MAAA! THEY'RE DOIN STUPID STUFF AGAIN AND THEY WON'T LET ME USE MY COMPUTER!
- hnuser123456 3y agoMAAAM or MAMAA
- petters 3y agoYou don't hear "Alphabet" a lot. MAGMA works
- Chilko 3y agoAs someone outside of the tech industry - Big Tech tends to be the term I use the most and is mostly understood by everyone.
- bigstrat2003 3y agoFAANG simply reflects what those companies are actually called. Most people don't say "Meta", they say "Facebook". And Google is still Google, they never changed names (they invented a parent company but still kept the name).
- tubthumper8 3y agoWith the rebranding of Facebook, we could go for MANGA, but dropping the "N" would still have an interesting result.
- BlueTemplar 3y agoOutside of the Silicon Valley they are called GAFAM (Netflix out, Microsoft in).
- CrimsonChapulin 3y agoIm surprised no one asked to automate an email to management of the status for the rollout of changes. “We’ll need the percentage complete as well and a summary of the savings expected. It needs to be sent out every Friday at noon.”
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- nfRfqX5n 3y agoAt least at fang you can write a mostly plaintext document instead of PowerPoint. Downside is you would probably have to do it before making the changes, have it reviewed by the entire team and get “alignment”
- tehlike 3y agoYes and no, changes based on the org But you would get handsomely paid.
- munk-a 3y agoSkip FAANG and go straight to a company that'll value you!
- Justsignedup 3y agoLol, if I wasn't given a raise, I'd agree to everything, and at the start of my presentation say "hi everyone, I wanted to walk you how we got to a half-a-million dollar savings, basically I spent a day looking at how terrible the original infrastructure was deployed and removed a code test feature that was causing the problems. This was just complete oversight from every aspect of the development, management, testing, and everything. Overall this code is as bad as it can possibly get, and we just launched it. And basically I was told not to say any of this because it makes everyone look bad, so I was to roll this out gradually to make it seem like managers were doing some sort of work." Then drop the mic and walk off stage. Honestly the amount of give-a-fucks I would have lost would have been a lot. And this is coming from someone who's done this for almost 2 decades and cares about his job because bills to pay, kids to feed.
- whartung 3y agoBack in the day I worked at a company that if you came up with some long term cost saving measure, they gave you a bonus of 10% net savings for the first year.
- dugmartin 3y agoA co-worker in the early 90s (he was a tech writer) told me of a cost savings device he invented in the 80s at Texas Instruments to fix a process where occasionally a mirror on a very expensive piece of military camera gear got scratched (I think it was during field disassembly). It was basically some forceps with more metal welded on to make them longer and that allowed you access via a different route than where the mirror was installed. TI gave cost savings awards as a percentage of money saved and he did very, very well with that little invention.
- mparnisari 3y ago> Sir, for your sake, apply to a FAANG or something Noooooooooo
- throwaway2990 3y agoYou definitely havent worked at a FAANG company.
- slowhand09 3y ago"Back in the day" I identified a way to save prob a quarter million dollars a year on my project, funded with your tax dollars. Created a spreadsheet model for the cost, documented it all, and gave it to my boss. He said "I'll look it over". I asked his two weeks later if he'd been thru it. His response was "It looks correct. Nice job." I asked if were going to trial it. Golden response: "No, we don't get paid to save money; we get paid to spend money." And that is when I truly understood Cost+Award Fee contracting with the gov't.
- Shocka1 3y agoAnecdotally I have worked in government roles and have been rewarded extremely well for saving taxpayer money, to the point where I felt it was too much at times. It really all dials down on the common denominator, which is the boss or manager. I've learned over the years in both the private and public world that if a manager is not willing to go out of their way to reward their great employees, it's time to move on to the next role.
- shantnutiwari 3y ago>managers asked how it was possible we saved that much without help from them Wait, it wasnt the managers that designed the overly complex solution! this is all on the engineers