Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round

Re:Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round by beambot on Thursday May 26, 2016 @05:49PM (#11781961)

Many software engineers (esp. at a web/comms company) are going to be working on similar frontend and backend problems -- and the fact that these guys are working at SnapChat doesn't marginalize their contribution to the world. They're working on one of the most-utilized, fastest growing communication platforms on earth. If anything, I'd say their "problems" are probably as interesting as any you've listed. They could just as easily end up producing things like React (FB), BigTable (Google), MapReduce (Google), Bootstrap (Twitter), etc.

Respectfully, I find this "other peoples' work is shit and meaningless" attitude off-putting. As someone who does similar R&D work as you (see profile), here's my perspective: Be grateful for getting to work on interesting problems, and don't be so quick to dismiss others just because it doesn't float your boat.

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Re:Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round by gjolund on Thursday May 26, 2016 @06:10PM (#11782078)

I didn't say "other peoples' work is shit and meaningless".

I did say I would have a hard time motivating myself to work on something so trivial. It is why I turned down the job.

Scale is a solved problem, their whole infrastructure is based on Google. They brag about having 0 ops employees.

What are they actually building in house? A UI, some photo filters, and a mobile photo app.

Not worth $20b and not worth a couple years of my professional life.

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