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I've worked long enough at large tech giants to know how things really are. Also a large part of the reason why I'd never join one again, no matter what they ha

by axegon_ 2mo ago

I've worked long enough at large tech giants to know how things really are. Also a large part of the reason why I'd never join one again, no matter what they have to offer. Meta, Google, Amazon, Netflix, Openai, anthropic, oracle, nvidia, Microsoft, etc. - same shit with a different badge on top.

truncate 2mo ago
TBH, having worked at all big-tech, startup and mid-sized companies, pretty much most has some major pros and cons of their own, and these days ever more so. With certain big-tech at-least there some chance of getting decent WLB.
- axegon_ 2mo ago
  I prefer hectic work and impossible deadlines at 3am over the flat-but-not-really hierarchy and the constant dick-measuring contests.
  - truncate 2mo ago
    I don't think they are mutually exclusive, that if you take one you give another. TBH, its more about the team you work with than startup vs big-tech company thing. I don't know how many of big-tech have flat hierarchy, at-least not the ones I've worked at and the people/team culture have definitely better. Were there times there was bureaucracy and all, sure, but I personally would take take good WLB most of the year, over fucking up my health/relationships over making some random software on claude code all night that these days anyway most want to be AI slop. If I've the energy to work extra, I'd work on my own hobby software projects. That said, this or that, its all personal preference. So no wrong way of life here. Whatever, you want your life to be.
ternaryoperator 2mo ago
I don’t think Nvidia fits on that list. It’s a company with a pro-employee culture, very few layoffs, and many employees who have been there a long time.
- flaburgan 2mo ago
  It is also a company with a terrible history regarding open-source. AMD is much better from every point of view.
  - xyproto 2mo ago
    NVIDIA created quality (but proprietary) drivers for Linux early on, when supporting Linux at all was not a given. They should get at least a tiny bit of credit for this.
    - iwjxjwjdjw 2mo ago
      Even a broken clock is right twice a day. They’ve all but abandoned these so called quality drivers since, so no, no credit is deserved.
      - robotresearcher 2mo ago
        What OS and whose drivers are running on all these NVIDIA-equipped computers today?
      - throw1234567891 2mo ago
        Unless it's a 24 hour clock. Then only once.
        xyproto 2mo ago
        Achtually... if it's a 31556952 second clock, it's only right once a year.
    - axegon_ 2mo ago
      Quality? Calling those "quality" is a bit of a stretch. Installing was and still is a gamble and so is every tiny system update. That hasn't changed a bit. And I'm saying that as someone who was first introduced to Linux on a Matrox GPU.

by axegon_ 2mo ago

truncate 2mo ago

TBH, having worked at all big-tech, startup and mid-sized companies, pretty much most has some major pros and cons of their own, and these days ever more so. With certain big-tech at-least there some chance of getting decent WLB.

axegon_ 2mo ago
I prefer hectic work and impossible deadlines at 3am over the flat-but-not-really hierarchy and the constant dick-measuring contests.
- truncate 2mo ago
  I don't think they are mutually exclusive, that if you take one you give another. TBH, its more about the team you work with than startup vs big-tech company thing. I don't know how many of big-tech have flat hierarchy, at-least not the ones I've worked at and the people/team culture have definitely better. Were there times there was bureaucracy and all, sure, but I personally would take take good WLB most of the year, over fucking up my health/relationships over making some random software on claude code all night that these days anyway most want to be AI slop. If I've the energy to work extra, I'd work on my own hobby software projects. That said, this or that, its all personal preference. So no wrong way of life here. Whatever, you want your life to be.

ternaryoperator 2mo ago

I don’t think Nvidia fits on that list. It’s a company with a pro-employee culture, very few layoffs, and many employees who have been there a long time.

flaburgan 2mo ago
It is also a company with a terrible history regarding open-source. AMD is much better from every point of view.
- xyproto 2mo ago
  NVIDIA created quality (but proprietary) drivers for Linux early on, when supporting Linux at all was not a given. They should get at least a tiny bit of credit for this.
  - iwjxjwjdjw 2mo ago
    Even a broken clock is right twice a day. They’ve all but abandoned these so called quality drivers since, so no, no credit is deserved.
    - robotresearcher 2mo ago
      What OS and whose drivers are running on all these NVIDIA-equipped computers today?
    - throw1234567891 2mo ago
      Unless it's a 24 hour clock. Then only once.
      - xyproto 2mo ago
        Achtually... if it's a 31556952 second clock, it's only right once a year.
  - axegon_ 2mo ago
    Quality? Calling those "quality" is a bit of a stretch. Installing was and still is a gamble and so is every tiny system update. That hasn't changed a bit. And I'm saying that as someone who was first introduced to Linux on a Matrox GPU.