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Isn't Valley culture pretty much the opposite of what you describe, for better or worse? Classic engineering culture does have some of those features: work hard
by _delirium 13y ago
Isn't Valley culture pretty much the opposite of what you describe, for better or worse? Classic engineering culture does have some of those features: work hard at school, get good grades, get into a good college, work hard in college, do an internship, graduate with a good GPA, get a good white-collar job.
Valley startup culture seems to sort of hate that culture, though, and considers it a kind of obsolete old-people culture that needs to be (wait for it) disrupted.
- humanrebar 13y agoI certainly hate go-along-to-get-along culture. For the record, I would love to see the need for crap work be disrupted. I'm just saying that for the time being, some boring responsibility is necessary even in Silicon Valley (large swaths of QA come to mind) and hardly anyone (no one?) is lucky enough to like all of it.
- prostoalex 13y agoAnd yet everybody hires from Stanford or CMU.