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by pm90 4y ago
Yes and Meta is supposedly eyeing them next.
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by pm90 4y ago
> Shortage of devs is (was?) a very popular talking point, but is it really true? If each developer was so unique, special and valuable, would companies be laying them off now? When companies were executing on projects that required work
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by pm90 4y ago
Yeah it’s a bit silly to push workers at a Big Tech behemoth to work like they’re at a startup. This is completely delusional and leaders who propose these things should get fired.
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by pm90 4y ago
I get the sense that when it comes to innovations in organizing and leadership, there is very little solid innovation. We’re pretty much working with the same dictatorial hierarchy that has existed since forever. Some exceptions are perhaps
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by pm90 4y ago
I feel like this isn’t a great comparison: Software is what US is strong in. A better comparison would be US automakers vs German ones.
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by pm90 4y ago
Coolness hasn’t really been defined so it’s different to have a useful discussion about it. There is more awareness of tech companies today because of their penetration and contributions to media and culture. I guess that kind of awareness
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by pm90 4y ago
> I’m also an Urbanism nerd and don’t want to see cities revert to the 70s-era trend, which is clearly and noticeably happening, destroying decades of progress on livability. Unfortunately there’s a collective action problem; people will
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by pm90 4y ago
As long as we continue digitizing the economy, there will be a demand for software engineers. What might change is the kind of software engineers. Luckily, software engineers can certainly cross train and quickly pick up new skills much m
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by pm90 4y ago
> Investors are pulling their hair out because Apple only made $117 billion. Is anyone really going to miss that $4 billion? You'll hear investors and talking heads calling for corrective layoffs when in reality nothing needs to be
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by pm90 4y ago
It’s unlikely they’re gonna be understaffed. The projects cut weren’t revenue generating ones.
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by pm90 4y ago
> This is top 5 tech companies in Canada. If this is the kind of culture promoted here, how are other companies doing? I wanna address this point. Even amazing companies will have shitty teams and managers. Conversely, companies with gen
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by pm90 4y ago
Yes but also tracking.
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by pm90 4y ago
This is such a stupid decision. Cut the free food and perks, fine. But at a time of historical uncertainty, with large number of folks suffering from the after effects of the pandemic… it makes very little sense to cut this.
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by pm90 4y ago
Shareholders. A lot of their expenses are equity compensation.
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by pm90 4y ago
Its going to be interesting to see how this plays out. Right now, they've taken away or trimmed many benefits and increased expectations around performance. Will a change in hiring make them change the benefits structure, or will this
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by pm90 4y ago
It would be difficult to prove active collusion, its more like institutionalized collusion, and I doubt that's a crime. e.g. the same consulting firms are hired by all companies, and they will give the same advice when dealing with fal
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by pm90 4y ago
Not going to a therapist because of fear of social stigma.
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by pm90 4y ago
Distributed Systems. Pretty broad term but if I had to guess, we’re gonna see an absolutely ginormous deluge of data and being able to build/operate/reason about distributed systems will continue to be important (as it has been fo
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by pm90 4y ago
honestly the only right answer
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by pm90 4y ago
Their compensation isn’t that good (at least for non famous folks) within Big Tech.
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by pm90 4y ago
It will be interesting to see amazing talent leave Google and build new companies and institutions now that it’s slowly being mismanaged to death.
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by pm90 4y ago
> The classic formula for hooking up is time and proximity - throw people together in the same space and wait - people will start hooking up. No app can provide this - they are designed with the exact opposite scenario in mind. Yes, 100%
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by pm90 4y ago
A friend that interviewed with them shared that they were a bit too smug about “running at google scale with much leaner but highly skilled staff” (paraphrasing here). Perhaps it starts becoming clear why you need that kind of staffing…
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by pm90 4y ago
Right, it seemed like a greedy move. Apple podcast app is just fine imo.
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by pm90 4y ago
It’s not a deliberate plan but more like FOMO. It seems reasonable that execs hang out in similar social groups and have similar viewpoints and predictions. Once a specific idea has taken hold, company leadership has to either fight it or g
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by pm90 4y ago
I’m assuming that with the major tech companies all laying off it becomes difficult to find another gig.
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by pm90 4y ago
No. Its all spin. The only uniqueness is the discount and preferential treatment they would get. Azure gets a nice callout in return.
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by pm90 4y ago
Its not a weird attitude if there is an implicit agreement between the employer and employees. BigTech specifically has lured people with the promise of stock appreciation on top of already great base. When stock prices collapsed last year
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by pm90 4y ago
> In 2021, as people began returning to their pre-pandemic shopping habits, Amazon’s revenue growth decelerated to 22 percent with nearly $470 billion in revenue. And in the first nine months of 2022 (Amazon reports results for the final
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by pm90 4y ago
Seems like Google leadership is freaking out. Also sounds like they really believe the whole founder-hero mythology if they think that Page-Brin can save the company. I don’t know how Google could be saved but perhaps having grateful and ha

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