Tell that to the Twitter employees who have to put up with this bullshit.
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We need to accommodate human nature, not change human nature to accommodate corporate requirements. Its irrational to expect a group to rally passionately around every available task. Robotic.
I grew up in the private server scene for a popular MMO and you're absolutely right. It was a whole lot of teenagers with energy drinks grinding through reverse-engineering minutia that adults would gawk at and make excuses to avoid doing.
That said there was a lot of automation, scripts, and other tooling, to make it easier. The best were able to i.e. update a private server automatically when the base game updated. We were doing automation at a higher level then F500 companies were at the time (mid 2000s) and we were just kids.
Serverless is amazing when you use it the way its intended. Its not there to replace your entire ec2 workload.
I think the real reason for requiring Facebook accounts was just padding user numbers and events for a quarterly report (likely for somebody's bonus to land).
The thing I hate about this fake corporate mission is there is absolutely no need for the lie.
Just be honest, hey we started this company, the founders will have disproportionate returns because we were first and control the equity power structure, you will work for us and make less money - even in the event of an exit. Sometimes we will fire you. We will make mistakes. Lets be adults.
Instead its: "In our supreme nobility we sacrifice everything at the alter of the almighty cause, and so should you. Follow in our virtuous foot steps. Ask not what your company can do for you, but what you can do for your company!" ...
Its a difficult language to learn full-stop. And its a language that can be used to produce valuable software, but probably should not be the first choice for many applications at most organizations.
It is super awkward to imply your interviewer should have a wealthier zoom background, but its by far not the worst thing I've heard blurted out in an interview. Interviews are stressful, and people in this industry (myself included) are pretty awkward.
I'm obviously not a fan but I agree he likely deserves a lot of credit for this. But at the same time, don't a lot of people participate in hiring decisions throughout a company? The board? Other executives?
It irks me that Musk should get all the credit of what is undeniably a team effort.
> Define and uniformly respond to all forms of unacceptable behavior. Clearly define what exactly is intended by SpaceX’s “no-asshole” and “zero tolerance” policies and enforce them consistently.
I wasn't keying in on a word "dishonest" (though I believe he knows exactly what he's doing with his crypto/dogecoin musings). I was keying in on "no-asshole" which while subjective, started with tweets like his famous "pedo" comment surrounding the youth soccer team stuck in a cave during floodwater.
> Musk's personal Twitter account
If your tweets impact the market substantially and the majority of your wealth is tied to those stocks, it cannot be considered a personal account. At best a hybrid account of some kind.
Being a public figure is hard, and you lose privileges. Lets not act naive and pretend this is not a well understood phenomenon.
I can't imagine the difficulty to accurately measure the success or failure of long-tail HR hiring processes like phone screens. The success or failure of a candidate post-hire has so many variables it must be very hard to attribute them to signals present in a screen. I imagine most of the data points are derived from signals found in successful candidates, and then trying to find them in an assessment or screen.
Its really hard, and I hope the negative tone of my comment does not suggest I don't respect the problemset and the people willing to throw themselves at it.
What are Elon Musks accomplishments? His ability to get financing? Hiring the right people to push the success of SpaceX and Tesla? His ability to inflate the stock price of his company (above that of a historic bull market).
This isn't a cynical comment, I'm honestly trying to understand his actual accomplishments other then the ancillary praise one gets in America just for getting rich(er).
With the money they raised, after spending so much on marketing, I assume they downsized, lost some talent, and pivoted mostly to a sales-driven recruiting business for their top clients.
Rails is perfectly fine but being perfectly fine is an unsatisfactory outcome over time.
Further, people said the app is awesome, people throw positive praise because its cheap and makes everyone in the room feel good. It doesn't mean your app is awesome (what is awesome anyways?).
Startups are hard. Selling to small business is hard. Its worth attempting because you learn an incredible amount about one of the backbones of our society (small business) - but its not for the faint of heart.
Saying something confidently does not make it so.
What a terrible cultural icon Musk has become.
Spending money on trivialities is not how you project strength. If your business is so fragile it rests on the reputation of its TLD, you are already weak.
Until you can't. A good case study is Dice Stockholm, perhaps best known for their stewardship of the Battlefield franchise. They butchered the launch of two titles in a row and lost much of their senior staff.
FWIW BFV became a good game. But the churn BFV (+Firestorm Battle Royale mode) caused has taken BF 2042 to a new low.