What happened to Quora?
I remember it being mentioned as where the smartest tech people go during an internship search last year, but I have not heard of any news about Quora since last year’s layoff. What’s happening at Quora? Did it hire many people back like Airbnb? Is it hiring interns for next summer? Did engineering culture change at there? How’s TC? #Quora
They failed to find a good way to monetize
Chill bruh we've only been at this since 2016
"Smartest people in tech". If you really think that the "smartest" work at a QA web frontend company, then you need to rethink what you define as the smartest. Hype, hype hype...
I meant smartest, because they were known for the hardest interviews and tons of people who did ICPC and went to top schools chose it over other top companies.
Why would smartest ppl waste their talent building a crud qa site? Dont be so naive.
They run bunch of adds now, revenue is ~ $20million, not so great.
Your job as a TC maximizer is to ride the hype wave, hop off when ppl figure out ur company is a scam, rinse and repeat
Your username does not check out. Doesn't snapchat pay the best in the market?
Are they paying Indians for answering questions? It’s flooded with Indians answering from A To Z
It's has something like a partner. If you ask questions then you get paid for the ads that is shown with your question.
Quora should learn from "Zhi hu" for business model, now it is pretty shit, lack of quality CEO and direction
The hype about their interview bar is only because one of their top execs (I don't remember if it was their CEO or CTO) was an ICPC Finalist himself. But Quora is trash these days, flooded with average content and a shoddy UI
you probably mean adam D'Angelo, used to be fb cto
I have a friend who works at Quora and it seems like he still really enjoys the work there. The TC is still pretty top tier and the ML teams in particular are world-class from what I've heard (lots of interesting NLP and recommendation problems to solve). In terms of the product, obviously people on Blind have been shitting on Quora for ages and quality is definitely declining as more users join, but you can still find useful content if you follow the right people (pretty much every media platform suffers from the same problem). Quora still pops up a ton in my Google searches so at least their SEO is on point. For people complaining about low revenue ($20 million in 2018), they need to remember that monetization efforts only started in 3 years ago in 2017 and has likely improved significantly since. Also having 300 million monthly active users with less than 100 engineers is a pretty incredible ratio IMO. Just remember that most people on Blind are not the typical engineers who want to work at Quora and have barely any idea of how the company is actually doing, so take their opinions with a grain of salt. I've talked to Big N/top tier unicorn recruiters and some of my smartest classmates, who have all told me Quora is perceived as a top company. If you browse through the past interns and employees on LinkedIn, tons of them go on to work at other highly selective places like Jane Street and Google Brain so it's not dead at all.
Sure the people worked there are still smart, but so are people that are already working in Google brain and other big/top tier unicorn companies lol. The app is still useful to some extent, but needs to accept it is going on a down hill road, unless they realize they got some serious problem with their business model It used to be tier 1 to me, now more like tier 3, the pay aren't as good, with no ipo in sight, there is still growth, but I wouldn't say the work is extremely interesting. It will be interesting to see the number of active user now, as the 30m user was last posted in 2018/2019, I do feel it is losing user.
Truth
Quora is dead/dying, it's web1.0...
Just in case: yep, no one still using Dropbox
Quora was legit back in 2012. Now they're pretty much Groupon status.
Interviewed with them back in 2016, spoke with a 26-year-old hiring manager, and it kinda felt like I was an old guy for being in his late 20s lol.
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