Interesting product and projects, amazing work life balance, generally good people
Uninspiring leadership, terrible middle management, massive bureaucracy considering company size, CEO is completely unqualified and demotivating, awful product prioritization, rampant technical debt, and no real decision making capability by ICs or line managers. Things used to be better, but culture and company has been on a steady decline.
He says to replace him with a black candidate. I mean diversity is good but this is kind of messed up. what if there was a good enough hispanic candidate or any other race? https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/6/5/21281744/reddit-co-founder-alexis-ohanian-resigns-board
Wow. Really enjoyed a podcast that interviewed him talking about the birth of Reddit recently. Shocking news to Reddit employees?
Interesting article on The Information (can't post the link since it's only for paid subscribers) about prominent tech executives and investors who have recently left the SF Bay Area. They released a list so far, with names, company, and where they moved to. Austin and Miami are super hot, although ...Read more
Graduated with his BS in '03 after interning at Sun and started working at Microsoft as a PM. His startup journey started when he turned down an offer to be a super early employee (co-founder?) of Palantir (after Peter Thiel even wrote him a $72k check, which was his then L59 salary at Microsoft) ...Read more
Right now my job is a joke, I work maybe 3 hours a week and maybe a few hours of meetings, it’s remote too. Lots of free time. Problem is that it’s hardly engineering, more like consulting internal teams on platform choices and creating app proof of concept hello worlds accompanied by tech docs. I’v...Read more