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by siren2026 5mo ago
The best time to delete * Meta was yesterday. The next best time is Today.
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by siren2026 5mo ago
I deleted all my meta accounts a couple years ago (Facebook, Instagram). When I did it I was afraid I would miss out. Nope: 5 years after I feel good about not being a dopamine-addicted sheep (At least to Meta). It makes me sick to my stoma
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by siren2026 5mo ago
we are obviously talking about the majority of employees that are SWE. You are very obviously nitpicking the lowest paid employees you could find. https://www.levels.fyi/?tab=levels&compare=Meta
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by siren2026 5mo ago
we are obviously talking about the majority of employees that are SWE. You are very obviously nitpicking the lowest paid employees you could find. https://www.levels.fyi/?tab=levels&compare=Meta
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by siren2026 5mo ago
Oh come on, It is very well known that the Facebook bar to get hired is ruthless and very high, it requires studying for weeks to pass the leetcode interviews. They just decided to get the extra 20k$/year to be at Meta because this is
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by siren2026 5mo ago
You misread my comment. I'm in agreement with you all the way.
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by siren2026 5mo ago
Exactly. Working at Meta means you studied for 4 weeks for the leetcode interviews. That type of dedication means you could very easily get any job anywhere else. And please don't compare someone making 800k$ with someone scanning a ti
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by siren2026 5mo ago
Oh I will blame them. Working at Facebook means you optimized ruthlessly for $$$$$ only, absolutely nothing else. Working at Facebook means you are a leetcode monkey and could as well pass other interviews somewhere else and get paid 10% le
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by siren2026 5mo ago
Source: your post history fanboying and defending anything google.
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by siren2026 5mo ago
Nope. I would bet most people really only do 2-10%. But we would like to convince ourselves we don't.
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by siren2026 5mo ago
Most people overestimate how much time they spend "writing code". I interviewed a ton of people in my career and when I ask "how much time writing code on your last job?". The more junior the person the more they would o
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by siren2026 5mo ago
A lot of people here work for Google. Tough to understand something when your salary depends on it.
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by siren2026 6mo ago
Yup. The CNCF is a power grab, not a huge money grab. All those people make money other places.
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by siren2026 6mo ago
I have some experience with the CNCF and oh boy is it a huge powergrab with excuse of inclusivity, wokeness and all the stuff that comes with it. Rarely seen so many self serving people that are in it for themselves as in the CNCF. Yes, dow
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by siren2026 6mo ago
>> Since the Industrial Revolution, managers typically oversaw work but did not do the labor. You could ask some managers what they do all day, but once you get some management experience, you will start to understand what managers do
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by siren2026 6mo ago
what you are describing is a team meeting. Yes, have them. Once a week. I will again say that most 1:1s are BigTech cargocult rituals where you talk about your path to the "next level" or "how are you feeling this week"
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by siren2026 6mo ago
I think what we are arguing is that yes management layers always existed. But the state right now is that: - those management layers are now more disconnected than ever from the actual work. Most managers are career managers that have given
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by siren2026 6mo ago
I don't think it would work here. Some camp leaders spend famously x m$+ just to bring their art to the playa. They wouldn't care about some fine. Similarly the fine would make it impossible for others to stay after. This is one e
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by siren2026 6mo ago
I went to an AMC Theatre last week and amazingly the room was absolutely trashed after the movie. For only maybe 25 people in the room. Concert two weeks ago, same thing. The venue was full of garbaghe. It is really amazing how great most b
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by siren2026 6mo ago
How old are you and how long have you worked in tech? I have been employed before the 2000s and that was the norm before AdTech started to empire building around managers.
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by siren2026 6mo ago
Exactly my experience as well. I worked in several BigTech that had managers excellent at talking and posturing in meetings but doing no or negative works. The issue is that managers are hired and judged by other managers, not IC, not produ
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by siren2026 6mo ago
Nobody is blaming the middle or frontline managers here. Those people are driven and genuinely want to do a good job But what we are saying here is that they are essentially an artificial layer of busywork that adds very little value. This
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by siren2026 6mo ago
That was true for the old school hard tech companies (Hardware chips, Intel, IBM, etc) Google and other adtechs are not hard tech, that's why they have so many managers) An underappreciated reason for this is empire building: Someone n
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by siren2026 6mo ago
> But I do need 1:1s to check on progress, uncover blockers that people haven’t surfaced on their own. That's why historically having managers being strong IC contributors remove that need because they already KNOW the progress and
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by siren2026 6mo ago
Or maybe we should go back to what it was before Google and big $$$ tech decided that if you were a "manager" you shouldn't contribute technically. Being a manager now means a bunch of busy work talking to other managers and
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by siren2026 6mo ago
I think you just proved my point! It's not because it is allowed that those things are good. Google and Facebook are allowed. They are still a net negative on society. The world would be a better place without them.
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by siren2026 6mo ago
Nobody is forcing people to do Heroin or Cocaine. We should start giving it for free to people in the street. Everyone can then decide if they want to take it or not. Oh yes and once you are hooked we should definitely never keep the dealer
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by siren2026 6mo ago
The incentive for those Adtech is to keep you hooked as long as possible so they can sell you more ads, and making you lose your only real currency in life: time. The incentive for Apple or Microsoft is to make a good product that you will
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by siren2026 6mo ago
I pray for Google to completely fail the pivot to AI. We don't need another surveillance capitalism company using AI to make us even dumber and more addicted to screens. I so hope that Google goes down. (And I pray the same for Faceboo
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by siren2026 6mo ago
if you are tech literate and still use Google, you brought this on yourself.

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