Yeah. They can find another job. Though not with us. We don’t hire ex Meta employees. You have to be pretty fucked up to accept working there in the first place.
LOL, I once met a manager who said he wouldn’t even interview devs with multiple years of Amazon on their resumes. He believed it was such a siloed organization it ruined people’s ability to cooperate, and he didn’t want to have to decondition that out of them.
When did you guys make that decision? Was there a particular evil action or the combination of all.
Idk if they were evil by 2010, but certainly by 2015 they were.
After losing hours interviewing some of them back in the days and realizing they were not software engineers, but facebook engineers, completly lost with anything else. It’s even worse with ex Google employees.
Some of them are probably very capable, but as for those, well, they pay the price of their past decisions. Been like that for at least 10y by now.
Yeah, some engineers who work for very large companies basically become type cast. Can’t do anything other than pull this lever, watch this knob and mark this on excel. It doesn’t matter if they graduated from Netflix academy or have a highschool degree or got trained at big co, those skills are not engineering.
Honestly, I’m glad I didn’t get sucked into the big tech vortex a decade or so ago. Much happier working in biotech these days.
I agree, I left software dev 10 years ago. The previous 3 decades were a golden age - we went from working with wild-west code and flat files to modular programming and databases, then object-oriented programming, then the web came along and brought another wild-west period, then came millions of packages and frameworks du jour. A giant wave of all that was just curling overhead when I left, but hadn’t crashed down yet. Now if your web page with a button on it doesn’t use 47 libraries you’re not a software engineer lol.
What are you doing? I’m with scverse, doing single cell stuff.
Oncological genomic sequencing cross-correlated with clinical patient outcome data to improve cancer treatment targeting based on real world patient outcome data. Personally, I work on data pipeline stuff. The mission is fantastic; the management and C-suites are a massive pain in my ass. But when are they not?
I hope pipeline stuff is better than when I started. I (not so) accidentally played a big part in revolutionizing my field by building anndata and scanpy. Then I tried doing it again by writing sequencing stuff in Rust, but was too early / too bad, but now that’s happening too!
So agism fears xcept accelerated to be 25 year olds instead of 55 years olds…?
You know what? I am okay with this.
They low key deserved it after this leet code tests.
Interesting and seems about right. I’m kinda surprised that the skills don’t transfer, but the culture sure would. I wouldn’t wand FB or G culture in my office. Eww
“team events”
That will sure make a perfect workplace.
In other news, furious Meta employees think “literal” means “virtual”.
Here’s the original Wired article without as much neoliberal spin: https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-meta-employee-meeting-interrupt-ai/
How much do they get paid?
Is this a rest and vest type of thing while the rest of the world has to actually work for a wage? All while they contribute, if even passively, to one of the worst corporations to ever exist?
It sounds like you’re whining about individuals’ rights while ignoring that you’re a member of the klan or something…
