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Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs by woodruffw on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:31PM (#35623159)
A hacker is a kind of engineer. Large companies require all sorts; expecting all of your engineers to be “hackers” is the kind of prima-donna-mentality-encouraging behavior that I would expect Meta to have grown out of by now.
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Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs by saghm on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @10:37PM (#35623622)
I think they _should_ have outgrown it by now, but I'm not sure whether I'd honestly expect it
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Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs by red-iron-pine on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @10:20AM (#35628519)
To that point: there is a lot of boring, eye-rolling -- but totally essential -- things like requirements management that are important for engineering. "move fast and break things" makes sense when you're small and agile, but when you have a massive platform that many other individuals and business depend on you just can't do that.

Sometimes I need a wizard with multi-domain knowledge to whip up a POC system, but most of the time I need someone to ensure all of the pieces work, have specs that meet reqs, and won't cause an outage when we deploy them.

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Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs by okdood64 on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:08AM (#35629093)
> A hacker is a kind of engineer.

I've always found the term "hacker" pretty eye-rolly.

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Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs by thethimble on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @03:05PM (#35631990)
We’re literally on hacker news right now
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Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs by gofreddygo on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:49PM (#35633735)
<eyeroll>
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Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs by jononomo on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @01:30PM (#35630900)
The person was just using the term "hacker" to mean "any kind of engineer".
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Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs by woodruffw on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @06:08PM (#35633937)
They say otherwise directly below.
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