thowaway999

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   by thowaway999 9y ago

   i apologize if i offended you or anyone else. the mention of "brazilian" is a relevant as a secondary detail. there was a group of problem engineers who were ring led. that group was brazilian. that they were latin american or bra
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   by thowaway999 9y ago

   ding ding ding. we have a winner! when conflict cannot be meaningfully reconciled the whole system tumbles apart. fwiw my critique focuses less on specific disagreements but the overall culture. i personally observed more innocent people ea
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   by thowaway999 9y ago

   I did my best to behave professionally every day of the job and help those around me. This is to say act better than the fray. Doing so for so long led to cognitive dissonance and personal burnout. My resignation was promptly tendered when
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   by thowaway999 9y ago

   I apologize about calling out the entire Brazilian group by name. That was unfair. Not all of you were bad. I think if you asked folks at large anonymously they would say that their was a whiff of nepotistic networking privilege in whom was
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   by thowaway999 9y ago

   Note that I never used the term "conniving" myself nor called anyone by name. Someone else did, and that is on them. For me what was most difficult and disappointing was not being able to rally peers or their teams to get the nece
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   by thowaway999 9y ago

   I was a director of an engineering department for SoundCloud for a time and left several years ago. Frankly none of this should be surprising: nobody there could figure out a product definition nor a monetization plan. What is more: the eng