It bothers me that Snapchat being "playful" is seen as a good thing. Please don't be playful when people are trusting you to do a job that is important to them,

It bothers me that Snapchat being "playful" is seen as a good thing. Please don't be playful when people are trusting you to do a job that is important to them, like delete their photos. First, I find it pathetic that Snapchat has to use these kinds of sales tactics. Are they really that unable to find talent? The idea that there's hot demand for top talent is fucking absurd in an industry where engineers are thrown out by 40. There are plenty of good engineers out there who aren't earning half a million. Some are female, some are older than 40, and some didn't go to Stanford, but if you can't get past that, I don't know what to tell you. Second, "playful" is often annoying, and I for one am fucking sick of the juvenility/neoteny of the tech industry. I didn't even like it when I was young and supposedly a beneficiary of it (I wanted people to look up to, and there were few, just as now) and I especially don't like it now that I'm "old" (31) by tech standards. I want for us, as an industry, to get to work and solve hard problems, not be run by middle-aged underachievers who give millions of dollars to unqualified, juvenile hacks like Lucas Duplan and Evan Spiegel who come up with shitty ideas like this and think that it's cute.