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Re:Small Things by ryandrake on Sunday May 05, 2024 @01:08PM (#40266389)
That ingrained cultural attention to detail is probably the only thing I miss about working there. Too many other tech companies I've worked at just don't care about things they consider "edge cases". Make the "key customer journey" (in other words the happy-path) work and you're done. Is "making it beautiful" in the contract? No? Then don't work on it! Oh, the software doesn't work in landscape mode? P3 bug, we'll fix it later--just ship ship ship. Cheap out and make the casing plastic instead of metal so you can save $0.30 on each device. KPIs! OKRs! metrics! That's all the rest of the industry runs on.
Re:Small Things by apantel on Sunday May 05, 2024 @01:44PM (#40266671)
This is the nature of lower price points: economization, doing only what is needed, not what would be nice.