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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by ryanmarsh on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @07:19PM (#15975205)
I seem to recall an episode of the A16Z podcast where Adrian Cockcroft of Netflix explained they were top heavy on senior engineers when they began moving to microservices. Didn’t seem to slow them down but I could be misremembering.
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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by lurr on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @08:12PM (#15975503)
They only hire senior engineers.

I don't know what that really means though. People who are smart, hard working, and get the right jobs can get a senior title in 5-6 years at the big companies.

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by lpr22 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @12:20AM (#15976641)
I know someone hired at Netflix who is belligerent, inexperienced, and lazy. He is a senior engineer there. Titles don’t really matter much at the end of the day.
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