Whats an interesting fact about your company

We get plastic from China to your doorstep pretty fast

We fucked up with user privacy. We fucked up elections. We didn't learn from it.

A lot of very smart and kind people work here but their accomplishments will never be featured in the press because the press can’t get over the stupid Cambridge analytica bs

People spend a ton of their time volunteering in the community. It's not just marketing, the company takes it really seriously. 56 hours of paid "VTO" per year.

Some of the biggest contributors in the Haskell community work here (Erik Meijer, Bryan O'Sullivan, Simon Marlow).

What the company wide email blasts refer to as “the attribution team” is actually the Data Science team, they’re doing Seldon’s work to model human behavior so the rest of the company can manipulate it more effectively, and half the stuff we take full credit for on the application side is just rendering content the science team created. They even manage the backing services on their own. We make more money than they do, though.

Credit Karma is the only place where you can get pre-approved for financial products without banks seeing your information first.

We have a lot of really smart people and a lot of not-as-smart people. The smart people know they can get a job elsewhere for higher pay but stay for the wlb and the chance to work on cutting-edge tech. We have offices all over the world, including many LCOL areas where a 6-figure salary goes a long way compared to the bay area/Seattle, etc. When people quit oftentimes the company won't hire replacements. They'll instead call it a "reorg", tweak a few positions and you'll still end up with roughly the same amount of work to do. Crazy thing is, some teams don't really notice the workload difference (my team shrank by at least 50% in the past year for example). So did we really need all those extra people to begin with? 🤔 perhaps if Intel cut its workforce by half everyone would get pay raises. Don't join for the stock. Check out levels.fyi; it's pretty spot-on when it comes to the 🥜 we get each year in RSU. I once had a meeting where I was the only dev on the call and there were 3 different managers on the call as well, all managing the same product and all fighting for influence in said product. This product had less than 5 engineers total. I had another meeting once where immediately afterwards I had a follow-up meeting to explain to a non-technical manager who attended the call what all the technical terminology meant. This is because Intel has many non-technical managers who lead technical projects for some reason. For these reasons mentioned Intel is able to lay off thousands of people and not much changes across orgs. If your project gets cancelled you have many months to find a new project before you are let go. Intel usually tries to help you match with other teams looking for folks as well. I appreciate how Intel treats its employees in this manner. Intel has a sabbatical program. Every 4 or 7 years you can go on sabbatical. Many teams are very comfortable with working from home as long as you get your work done. Since you'll often have meetings or team members in different states or countries there are a lot of internal tools to help with collaboration across geos.

Most of Google's code is stored in a single monolithic repository. If you're interested in the details, there is a surprising amount of public info: https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/fulltext And here's more info on Google's infrastructure: https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/production-environment/

Many interesting-ish facts are in our public filings, but nobody bothers to look at them.