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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by AgentOrange1234 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @02:16PM (#34031123)
Maybe I am unusually lucky. After managing a small team for a year in a FAANG, I am considerably less jaded.

I think it is entirely possible to be truly focused on the customer, to have a vision and a strategy, and to balance working toward this goal with experimentation.

It is of course also very hard work, it’s easy to make mistakes, and nothing is perfect. But I really don’t see that this is all doomed from the beginning just because of bad incentives and structural forces.

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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by mathgladiator on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:01PM (#34033998)
If your leadership chain is good, then it is easy to have a great experience and good scope to grow.

As you get higher up, the politics and limits become very visible. Strategy and focus are really hard to scale up which creates limited scope for continued growth.

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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by dpe82 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:15PM (#34034089)
Come back in 5 years and let us know if that's still your opinion. Maybe you'll get lucky, but most people aren't.
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