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The pay is near top and the engineers are talented. There are a lot of systems in place to get you to work near max capacity all the time with little slowdown t
by battery_glasses 4y ago
The pay is near top and the engineers are talented. There are a lot of systems in place to get you to work near max capacity all the time with little slowdown time. There are lots of processes and political upheavals that make it hard to ship code. Some people love it.
- whatshisface 4y agoThat sounds like a place you'd go if you were using work to distract you from a problem in your personal life.
- VHRanger 4y agoOr distract that you're writing code for a platform that harms people
- gagege 4y agoIDK, I wouldn't be able to be distracted from the fact that I'm working for Lord Sauron.
- sbdncuvh 4y ago
- midoridensha 4y agoPlease don't disrespect Sauron with this kind of comparison.
- darepublic 4y agoOr distract that you're writing code for a product that is lame and writing is already on the wall that it won't succeed.
- wallscratch 4y agoCan you give an example of a system that’s in place to ensure workers are near max capacity most of the time?
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- myko 4y agoand rarely shipping, to boot!
- battery_glasses 4y agoDiff count/LoC count is recorded and made publicly available for all engineers in a graph that lets you easily compare metrics between developers and teams. This means if you are constantly comparing your output to the rest of the team. The multi-axis performance review criteria that requires you to show deliverables on things like your impact on team-building or culture. This means that when you might normally get a couple week low-output time between projects, you are usually looking for something to fill in the non-coding axis, like organizing a team virtual offsite event or searching for a way to improve the codebase. Organizing team activities and code quality initiatives are a good thing, but the explcitivity in which you need to show deliverable impact on all axis is something I found unique to Meta and very exhausting.
- Johnny555 4y agoDoesn't that just encourage writing code for max LoC rather than efficiency or maintainability? Instead of generalizing a procedure you use in multiple places to make it a single function, if you write it out (slightly differently) each time you do it, then you get a higher LoC count?
- battery_glasses 4y agoI mean people there aren't stupid and there is a fairly high engineering bar, your code won't get through review if you're doing stuff like that. Where it really digs is when you are 1.5 weeks into writing an in depth project plan, meeting with other engineers, coordinating cross teams, researching, reviewing code etc. you better have a good explanation why your delivery over time graph has a big flat spot.
- waynesonfire 4y agodo they have bidets yet? Try google instead.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoHow many Michelin stars on the food?
- waynesonfire 4y agoBut, I'm not joking. Google has bidets.
- ironmagma 4y agoI don't honestly know why all of America doesn't have them, and my suspicions are it has something to do with timber shareholders.
- midoridensha 4y agoNo, it's cultural; Americans just can't imagine not using dry paper to smear feces around after they use the toilet, instead of using water to properly clean themselves. I tried talking to people I knew about them during the pandemic when everyone was freaking out about toilet paper shortages, but it went nowhere. I also suspect NIH is a big part of the problem. Bidets and washlets weren't invented in America or adopted there first, so Americans can't adopt them now since that would be admitting they weren't first for something. Americans are, as a whole, completely unable to look at what other countries are doing and learn from their example.
- znpy 4y agoUh… a bidet is not a substitute for using toilet paper.
- psalminen 4y agoIt's actually rooted in America's puritanical roots. Americans were largely introduced to bidets during WWII in French bordellos. It didn't leave a good reputation coming back. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/the-bidets-revival/555770/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/the-b...