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Essentially it's a culture of elitism. Reminds me of Ivy League. It can work, but it's hard to scale and in my experience it's very hard to avoid a monoculture.
by 23david 12y ago
Essentially it's a culture of elitism. Reminds me of Ivy League. It can work, but it's hard to scale and in my experience it's very hard to avoid a monoculture.
How diverse is the population of engineers at Netflix compared to other public tech companies at a similar stage?
A high-performing culture that emphasizes mentorship is better IMO.
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- _delirium 12y agoIt drives off a reasonable number of high-performing people as well, though obviously not all. One of the problems systems like stack ranking have encountered is that some proportion of people who are really good and not the intended target of the system end up very stressed out by it. Varying reasons: some people underestimate their own skills, some are worried about the system's false-positive rate, some are stressed out by worries about coworkers being fired even if not worried about their own job, etc.