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skj commented on Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
whateveracct · 4 years ago
It's hilarious how smug Googlers can't help but be.

Everything I've heard and seen (thanks to remote work I can work alongside them now) has shown me that Google's culture is fundamentally based on Googler egos. Their weirdness about org charts and levels really exemplifies it (org chart and level are obscured from you - contrast this with Amazon, for instance).

skj · 4 years ago
Unless something big changed since I left two years ago, the org chart is totally visible to the entire company, and so are levels except when someone explicitly opts out (most do not bother).
skj commented on Ivermectin Didn’t Reduce Covid-19 Hospitalizations in Largest Trial to Date   wsj.com/articles/ivermect... · Posted by u/elmalto
lez · 4 years ago
Nobody is right to be "knocked", it's discourse and leaving alone each other's freedoms what could work. Same as with the russians: censoring "knocking" Russian media won't solve anything, just create a more pro-war society.

Even the government has an agenda and not interested in the truth at all.

skj · 4 years ago
Are you knocking the knockers? No one is suggesting they be arrested. They're just being ridiculed.
skj commented on Managing People   klinger.io/posts/managing... · Posted by u/kylegill
wreath · 4 years ago
But is that at the will of your direct boss or there is a process that they have to go through? Like, if for some reason I piss off my manager, they get mad and fire my ass on the spot? How common is this in tech companies?
skj · 4 years ago
Pretty uncommon at tech companies, but it's entirely based on the company's policy. The company can fire you at any time (as long as it's not one of several specific bad reasons like racial discrimination), but it's the company that employs you, not your manager. So only the company can fire you.

Generally big tech companies don't give your manager the authority to blindly fire you, but only because that's a decision the company made.

skj commented on Dad and the ten commandments of egoless programming (2012)   blog.stephenwyattbush.com... · Posted by u/grzm
sethammons · 4 years ago
"Given the choice between my opinion and yours, I'll take mine. Got any data?" -former boss
skj · 4 years ago
My former boss too! That message was sort of the beginning of the end for the trust I had. Very disappointing.
skj commented on Lessons from my PhD   web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blo... · Posted by u/andrewnc
mcguire · 4 years ago
"People above you in that chain will accept limited feedback on methods to attain their chosen goals and will greatly resent questions about whether their selected goals are worthwhile/realistic/rational, or whether their gestalt vision of the field's conventional wisdom is correct."

Corporate management has the exact same situation.

skj · 4 years ago
Yeah but it's a lot easier to not care.
skj commented on Facebook's reputation is so bad that they must pay more to hire, retain talent   businessinsider.com/faceb... · Posted by u/TechBro8615
silisili · 4 years ago
Protip: If you respond to an FB recruiter with profanity ridden anger, the entire company will stop bothering you. Two years and counting.

After getting nearly monthly solicitations for who knows how long and being polite, I tried a different approach.

skj · 4 years ago
What I tried, in a similar situation, was being clear that I did not support the company or its leadership and for them to never contact me again. It worked.
skj commented on Chinese tennis star recants sexual assault allegations against CCP vice-premier   tmz.com/2021/12/20/peng-s... · Posted by u/737min
sequel_database · 4 years ago
Why did she lie? What will her punishment be?
skj · 4 years ago
She didn't.
skj commented on Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again    · Posted by u/thadjo
streetcat1 · 4 years ago
Remember, every 12 secs take one 9.
skj · 4 years ago
eh?
skj commented on AWS us-east-1 outage   status.aws.amazon.com/... · Posted by u/judge2020
CrazyCatDog · 4 years ago
Suggesting that when the status page sends a status request and hears no response—it defaults to green—hear no evil and see no evil —> report no evil

Either way—overt lies or engineering incompetence—it’s disappointing!

skj · 4 years ago
Pretty low chance that the status page is automated, especially via health checks. I imagine it's a static asset updated by hand.
skj commented on Bob Dole has died   wsj.com/articles/bob-dole... · Posted by u/stopagephobia
skj · 4 years ago
Little known fact: "Bob Dole has died" were his last words.

u/skj

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