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Brian is known for adopting whatever appears to be hot. Sometimes he reads the latest fad book and starts projecting it, other times there's a hiring or retenti
by bravoetch 1y ago
Brian is known for adopting whatever appears to be hot. Sometimes he reads the latest fad book and starts projecting it, other times there's a hiring or retention trend that he adopts to remain competitive for hiring. I don't get why he'd fire people over this though, seems like he's undifferentiated.
- Ancapistani 1y agoIMO, an engineer who refuses to explore a technology when paid and directed to do so isn't likely to be someone I'd want to work with. It's... "uncurious" is the best way I can think of to describe it.
- throwaway314155 1y agoRight, then it's fortunate when a company has something more objective than "i don't happen to like them at the moment"
- actinium226 1y agoI've known him for bucking trends actually. Back when every company was tripping over themselves to say how "Black Lives Matter" they were, he sent a memo to the company saying "if you support that stuff, that's fine, but do it on your own time. When you're at work, the focus is the company's mission. If you don't like this, here's a nice severance package." Something a low single-digit percentage of employees took the severance offer. It was a pretty brave move when the prevailing wind was towards all these social justice issues. And he also bucks the trend by running a crypto company in the US instead of some random island in the Carribean and actually talking to regulators in the hopes of getting regulatory clarity.