Re:High performance individuals and teams (2020)
by thewarrior on Saturday May 28, 2022 @07:32AM
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How did your team kick Googles ass at advertising. Any lessons you can share ?
Re:High performance individuals and teams (2020)
by benreesman on Saturday May 28, 2022 @11:40AM
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There’s a bunch of technical auction theory and ML stuff that’s semi-germane, but mostly it was Sheryl breaking ranks with a wage-fixing cartel. Google and Apple and Pixar and a dozen other companies have been found guilty in court of various “no poach” arrangements and other wage suppression collusion, and so here comes Sheryl offering twice the TC and raising the hiring bar accordingly. FB in 2008-2012 was harder to get into than Harvard and paid better. So we were better, and the novelty of the situation created a camaraderie that had everyone sleeping at the office with the singular focus of putting Vic G out of a job.
There’s a lot of structural nuance and important details but it was an absurdly elite group of people who hadn’t been disillusioned yet and we forced Google’s jaws open wide enough that there are now 2 panopticon ads businesses instead of 1.
Antonio García Martínez wrote a great book about it called “Chaos Monkeys” if you’re a long-form reader.
Getting a job at RenTech is easier than winning the Nobel or Turing, but harder than getting a job anywhere else.
Getting a job at hardass backend FAANG is easier than getting a job at RenTech, maybe about as hard as getting into an Ivy with undistinguished parents.
Hitting that top 1-3% performer at FAANG is harder than completing a PhD at Stanford or Cal, but easier than selling a YC startup for 500MM+.
People want it to be subjective so that 0,0 can be in sight of wherever they are, but I know damned well that I’d flunk a RenTech interview, and even more so that I’ll never win the Turing.