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Twelve years ago, Quora was a Silicon Valley darling and notoriously had one of the more difficult interview processes. How far they’ve fallen.
by Apocryphon 3y ago
Twelve years ago, Quora was a Silicon Valley darling and notoriously had one of the more difficult interview processes. How far they’ve fallen.
- ninkendo 3y agoI must have missed this honeymoon period with Quora, I only ever remember it being as “that shitty site that tries to make me log in to view answers”. I treated it like that old “Experts Exchange” site, and just visually moved past it every time I saw it in search results. People in this thread speaking fondly of Quora has come to a complete shock to me to be honest. I thought everyone else also considered it just a spam site. Today I learned.
- Apocryphon 3y agoI mean, user experience aside, the company had an inordinate amount of hype for a Q&A website. Guess it was one of those founder prestige stories. The concept of lionizing subject matter experts probably appealed to the Silicon Valley technocratic mindset, too.