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From the interview transcript: "[I]t’s kind of bizarre if you think about it: if you were, say, a computer company, and you had a product that was all bas
by jt2190 14y ago
From the interview transcript:
"[I]t’s kind of bizarre if you think about it: if you were, say, a computer company,
and you had a product that was all based on this particular chip. You didn’t build
the chip yourself. You were expecting to buy it on the outside, and your expectation
was just that you’ll be able... to buy this chip on the outside in the quantity you
want at the price you want to pay... The software engineers, the systems architects,
are often the key component in these companies, expecting to hire them right
out of college, and they don’t really have much relationships with the colleges...
They don’t get close to their suppliers; they’re just hoping it will come up.
If you did that with a chip, your board of directors would probably fire you for
terrible risk management, but when it comes to skills and employees, it seems to be
kind of a standard practice."