I wish more companies thought that way. It seems like most of them are just cargo culting Google's hiring methods with the expectation that it will turn them into the next Google.
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When I type in a normal terminal emulator (xterm, alacritty, anything!) it feels "fast." There is no perceptible lag whatsoever between pressing a key and the character showing up on the screen.
Then I switch to a tty, and realize there's somehow even less perceptible lag.
I'm afraid to try one that uses Electron.
Most recently, it showed me an advertisement for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. I've already seen every episode of that series, and at least one their systems is well aware of this fact. In fact, Star Trek shows are the ONLY things I've watched on Paramount Plus.
There is clearly no thought going into their ad selection whatsoever.
Sounds like there may be room for improvement in your documentation.
The goal of Agile is building the right thing for the customer, which is done by having the people who do the work talk to the customer (frequently!) to see what their needs are and how their needs are being met by what they have already.
The problem here is that this turns the organization from top-down to bottom-up. Those at the top of the company are now servant leaders who support those at the bottom, as opposed to people who give orders and tell those at the bottom what to do.
The real problem with Agile is that managers are rarely willing to give up that power.
Agile is robust because it ISN'T a strict process.
The Agile manifesto specifically says "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools." If teams are forced to work in a certain way (e.g. scrum) then your organization isn't actually doing Agile.
Personal example from trying GNOME out recently: I have an external webcam, which means I need to move the GNOME panel clock since it's in the top middle of the screen (and thus blocked by the base of the webcam). You would _think_ that would be easy, but you have to get an extension just to move the clock! Apparently each panel "widget" (this may or may not be the official term) defines its own position on the panel. So, to move something, you need to either find an extension that does it (Frippery Move Clock[0] in this case) or edit the widget code yourself.
Maybe someone can chime in with a technical explanation, but my cynical take is that the GNOME devs don't even trust users to be smart enough to customize their own panel without breaking things.
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You could always point out that the Agile Manifesto specifically says "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools," and therefore you aren't doing real capital-A-Agile if teams aren't empowered to use the processes that work best for them. (It probably wouldn't do you any good, but it might feel good to say)
Why does management insist all engineering teams use scrum, though? I hope they're not trying to compare different teams' story points, because that would imply that management has a gross misunderstanding of how story points are supposed to work.
The engineers? i.e. the people who will actually be fixing those problems?
> Engineers or CEOs building features no one asked for is IMHO one of the major reasons lots of tech startups fail.
So why put another layer (the PM) in between the engineers and the customers? Sounds like an unnecessary game of telephone to me.
(I recently looked into getting a copy of a certain specification printed/bound, but found that the cost would be a lot higher than I cared to pay)
Isn't he CEO of 2 or 3 other companies? I know a lot of people think that CEOs don't actually do anything important; Musk is not hurting their argument.
2. "Right to work" laws deal with union membership. You're thinking of "at-will employment" laws.
I think that's most of the code, at this point
In the USA? Not unless you're an executive (or an actual contractor).
(With that said, "Not reacting to an email is not quitting" is still a true statement)
It's only unethical if you're not in the ruling class. If you're an executive, it's perfectly fine to sit on the board of multiple companies simultaneously (each one paying you $50,000+ per year).
To put it differently, I'm reading your argument as equivalent to saying that the existence of the USPS (which will deliver to remote rural areas, despite the fact that doing so isn't profitable) is more dystopian than the existence of UPS and FedEx (which will not).
That entirely depends on the Linux distro.
Under the current system, the rich can do just that while everyone else literally starves to death :)