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Great article! This was similar to my experience in ad-tech, though obviously more mundane. It's almost like people had to create artificial problems to avoid
by uludag 2y ago
Great article! This was similar to my experience in ad-tech, though obviously more mundane. It's almost like people had to create artificial problems to avoid thinking about what they're actually building. Even language filled with euphemisms and acronyms was employed, I suppose to put the person at a distance from what they're building.
Even if there's nothing morally objectionable, like other places I've worked at, the product is so worthless that people would enter the same patterns of behavior.
- troyvit 2y agoExactly the same, down to the industry! My job was as a simple force multiplyer for account managers and sales folks, automating tasks to allow them to scale their projects and help more clients. It was all cool helping them get more ads out the door for Toyota and cool authors, weird when it started being for "One weird trick" ads, downright wtf when I started helping boost SERP pages and finally once we started promoting gambling apps I just couldn't take it anymore. It was great money. I miss that. And helping all these very kind, friendly people make numbers felt useful. But man, once I finally got un-distracted (after ten years?!) I had to get out of there.