I mean non-ridiculous companies/people claiming that.
Google definitely used to have that mythos/meme (said by others, so the company didn't have to say it), but I don't hear anyone saying that recently.
Google definitely used to have that mythos/meme (said by others, so the company didn't have to say it), but I don't hear anyone saying that recently.
> A dream team is one in which all of your colleagues are extraordinary at what they do and highly effective working together. [...] Dream teams are about performance, [...] Sustained “B” performance, despite an “A” for effort, gets a severance package with respect.
More recently, unrelated, I re-signed up for Netflix as a consumer, and almost immediately noticed several problems (most not explained by intentional dark patterns). So I'm not buying the self-proclaimed universal excellence.
Launched a front page redesign. How do you measure this as positive? Amount of time customers spend on it? Could be a negative. Number of folks who convert from trial to paying subscriber? Objective, but not necessarily because of you. How about latency? Not bad, but what does X ms convert into Y dollars made more? Amount of time people spend "chilling"?
Now, start imagining the backend team out there responsible for closed captions. Not on a critical path for conversions, subscription upgrades, etc. How do you measure their impact? Surveys for customer satisfaction? Amount of text you can put onscreen? Accolades from an accessibility advocacy group? Amount of bytes needed to transmit text in the stream?