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Re:What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse... by mrkurt on Thursday April 07, 2022 @05:42PM (#30950696)
We all know plenty of engineers who want to build things for inappropriate scale. The company was a disaster, but part of building a disastrous company is hiring the engineers who want to make everything webscale and have no sense of pragmatism.
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Re:What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse... by randmeerkat on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:31PM (#30951114)
> The company was a disaster, but part of building a disastrous company is hiring the engineers who want to make everything webscale and have no sense of pragmatism.

I mean, the engineers held up their side of the bargain. They were hired for webscale, the company got webscale…

Now, if this was a more strategic startup, that had tried to hire pragmatic engineers, that insisted on webscale, I would blame the engineers. However, in this case, I think it’s pretty clear that the engineers did exactly what they were hired to do.

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