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I think it's useful for people who are founders or employees in a startup that Google (or similar BigCo) might acquire to read things like this. Also, I think

I think it's useful for people who are founders or employees in a startup that Google (or similar BigCo) might acquire to read things like this. Also, I think there's things to be proud about working at Google. In general working there does teach a diligence of quality that is often missing in SWE in other orgs, though many companies are picking up on the same practices anyways. Personally, I found my time at Google to be useful from the POV of that, but also, yeah, just having it on my resume.

dilyevsky 3y ago
People usually don’t hand the keys to their company when things are going amazing. Very first sentence: > As we started to raise Socratic’s Series B in 2017, we quickly learned that our focus on getting usage at the expense of revenue was going to bite us As folks here seem be eager to read between the lines how terrible it was maybe they should read between this one too