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601.
by pm90 4y ago
Genuine question: does the elevation of Xi as (effective) dictator for life change the approach of the Chinese State to be less rational?
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by pm90 4y ago
> I think if you’re only L5/L6 after 16 years then you’re probably a low performer. L5 is supposed to be a “terminal level” so there isn’t an expectation for employees to want to advance further. But perhaps there are some implicit
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by pm90 4y ago
Apologies if this is naive, but it seems like Google employees need to understand that its no longer a company that has their interests at heart. The company leadership is making it clear through their actions. Is the expectation that leade
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by pm90 4y ago
Fear isn’t a good long term strategy though. If your culture is fear driven, engineers will be less likely to join, or you will attract certain kinds of engineers. When operating on survival mode teams will switch from collaboration to comp
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by pm90 4y ago
This is not how any of this works.
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by pm90 4y ago
Yes exactly. CEOs that don’t follow the “trend” will be marginalized and questioned. Of course they need to demonstrate that they’re “serious” and can make “tough” decisions. Keep in mind that being the CEO often requires a person to have a
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by pm90 4y ago
At this time almost certainly. They already have a hiring freeze in plce.
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by pm90 4y ago
Nobody behaves this way. A GCP solutions architect has spent years acquiring valuable skills and experience. They aren’t gonna throw it away out of spite. The only thing laid off employees will generally do is never, ever work for the emplo
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by pm90 4y ago
I would be surprised if they let go Senior Staff/Principal engineers.
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by pm90 4y ago
Its not bad PR when the narrative has already been set. This is a very opportunistic move at cost reduction that would have been scrutinized heavily under regular circumstances.
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by pm90 4y ago
I don’t know if you were around then but early google results were also without ads (or at least unassuming ones), this is just the way early tech adoption works. Additionally: openAI actually wants prompts from humans; these tools are esse
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by pm90 4y ago
Well, yes and no. The skills one develops on the job and the skills one needs to actually perform well at a job are not really tested well by the standard big tech interview loop (startups can be innovative here, but it can go either way).
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by pm90 4y ago
I share this excitement as well. Currently, designing or changing systems involves quite a bit of careful thought since you have to keep all the constraints in your mind and reason about how the system would work. If tools existed to create
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by pm90 4y ago
Setting explicit time frames is really useful for both the mentor and mentee (or manager and employee etc). If someone is unable to complete a task within a set time, but explains their thought process and what they tried , I consider that
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by pm90 4y ago
> On July 1, 2010, Grove wrote: > "The first task is to rebuild our industrial commons. We should develop a system of financial incentives: Levy an extra tax on the product of offshored labor. (If the result is a trade war, treat
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by pm90 4y ago
> I suppose activist investors who pushed for aggressive growth strategies because of the FOMO environment will be losing a lot of money, but that's little comfort to the people losing their jobs. Right, and I see little in the news
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by pm90 4y ago
It might make more sense to think of these folks, not as smart people operating independently, but as part of a larger social ecosystem. They claim to be purely data driven, but generally that's not really true. A lot of decision makin
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by pm90 4y ago
> Something tells me that most CEOs who commit to running an all-weather business during this period of contraction will forget about it when times are better. Bingo. It will be very interesting when the interest rates climb back down, t
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by pm90 4y ago
They talked about this at a Kubecon iirc. I wasn’t sure if it was an elaborate prank but they were seriously smart folks who patiently explained why they needed to do this and I remember being very impressed.
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by pm90 4y ago
And lower immigration levels.
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by pm90 4y ago
Amazon and Meta are at 0 risk of running out of money. They make billions in profits. Smaller companies that are still not generating profits? Absolutely they need cuts to survive. Both of these things are true at the same time. I’m continu
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by pm90 4y ago
This is really surprising considering the number of open recs they post on linkedin.
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by pm90 4y ago
Yes, looking at all the comments it’s pretty clear nobody reads the article or stops reading as soon as they read something that goes against what they already know. He even suggests methods to avoid layoffs: broader cuts in staff compensat
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by pm90 4y ago
This is great. I think there should be more resources that explain this dynamic and especially how to have productive conversations around tech debt with management.
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by pm90 4y ago
> As a first-level manager my job is all about execution and getting things done. Being in 20+ hours of meetings a week gives me a lot more perspective on the big picture than the ICs on my team. > They often think certain work is imp
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by pm90 4y ago
Ideally, yes. But in the absence of wholesale reform, this does look like a pretty reasonable solution that could be implemented quickly.
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by pm90 4y ago
Twitter never really got the level of usage as YT though. 300 million is what I remember for their userbase. I suspect that any service that crosses some threshold of users will almost certainly monetize it profitably.
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by pm90 4y ago
I don’t understand Jobs’ logic here. Is he just a bully? If Google makes such a great offer that his employee will leave him, shouldn’t he try to make a better offer, or meet with the employee instead of calling Sergey? Say he did get the o
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by pm90 4y ago
Probably because there is a lot more operational understanding of “traditional” RDBMs and they’re sufficient in early stages. Once your product takes off it can be difficult to scale but by that time you probably have enough money to attrac
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by pm90 4y ago
Slightly OT: have you considered using some kind of automation to generate these messages? ( or perhaps this is an automated message).

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