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Re:No-bullshit tenets for faster decision-making by varelse on Saturday September 18, 2021 @10:56AM (#28576743)
And if you like seeing a bunch of middle-aged mostly white dudes act like teenage mean girls over whether to add new tenets to their already too long list, after getting mildly intoxicated doing insipid team building exercises for low-end prizes, just attend one of their principal engineer summits and see just how full of you know what this rabbit hole really is.

Oh wait I think they stopped doing that after they "lowered the bar" for being a principal engineer there so much that most of them can no longer code. And that's how there was a sudden explosion of senior principal engineers...

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Re:No-bullshit tenets for faster decision-making by varelse on Saturday September 18, 2021 @02:35PM (#28578273)
Oh a downvote how quaint. So let's double down and talk about how when I was part of senior leadership there all we did was talk about who we were going to fire instead of what we were going to build. They were called "unregretted attritions" because people couldn't be honest about just randomly firing people who easily got past our ridiculous coding interviews and standards and no tenet could ever fix that.
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