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Because companies start with engineering, then move focus to marketing and finally move to finance, at which point what are they even doing anymore. Just let them die.
That's why I like selling at startups. I find engineers I like, making something valuable and helpful. These days most work comes from eng friends or old bosses recruiting. I make their equity valuable. I excitedly create new engineering jobs as I create demand for them to keep up with deal flow and appreciate every hire. If I sold car parts, I'd know how many kids every motherfucker on the assembly line has. Too many MBAs in tech now, no regard for humans let alone the ones creating the thing they're making a living on.
A founder-engineer driven company. Facebook is one of the few Big Tech firms whose founder is an engineer, and still is the CEO. Netflix is the other one where founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings was also a software engineer before starting the company. Amazon was the other example of this until recently, but it’s not the case at Google or Apple. There are good examples of smaller companies like Cloudflare, but they’re all younger than Facebook.
Jeff Bezos was a Wall Street douche. He didn’t care about the internet or even books — he wanted data. He figured smart people like to read, and a web-based book seller was the easiest way to get data on smart people.
Not an engineer.
Apple was founded by the two Steves. One a brilliant electrical engineer and the other had some engineering skill. Their entire purpose, initially, was to build the PCBa from the schematics they’d been giving away to others in their proto-makerspace.
Engineers.
Google was started by Stanford engineers.
Zuck is an engineering drop-out. I doubt he’s written a line of code in a decade.
Is the author trying to be wrong about everything?
Journalism is now a tool to spread misinformation and get rich people more power. Well now more than ever
Wouldn’t be the first time
Anyone working there is a piece of shit. Can say that for the last decade too
sure but every other company looks to Meta, Google, Amzn, and others to see what they are doing, and then they mimic it, because Business Idiots are herd animals.
Were you rejected by them? Or jobless and jealous?
Normal people work there, too, especially those who became meta employees through acquisutions.
No lol I’d never accept a job there. 10 years ago a previous coworker asked if id join and i let him know my string opinion, which has only been backed up since then by their terrible practices. Cambridge analytica, myanmar, lots of people have suffered. Zucc and team were shit early i can’t believe people still use their spyware and let their kids be manipulated. Also he sides with the trump fash trash
What is Meta even building any more?
Surveillance.
Fake news, fake posts, and data collection.
Most companies are doing it right now. They don't want to pay for developers as professionals. They want them to be low wage slaves like all of their other employees and have been working towards that for years. The fake promises of "AI" is giving them an excuse to lay off all of the experienced developers and hire entry level people pretending that "AI" will do the actual work. In reality the few remaining real developers are having to pick up all of the slack combined with products getting more and more buggy and useless. Eventually things will crash, but they'll be able to rehire at much lower wages because consolidation has lead to very few small businesses in the market anymore and very few large businesses that all just laid off a ton who haven't been able to find work.
Excuse me, there was engineering culture?! 🤦🏻♂️
One of the most evil companies ever to disgrace the earth.
