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Re:Former DOGE engineer on his experience working for the co... by legitster on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @05:09PM (#44185590)
> And I do believe that there is a lot of waste. There's minimal amounts of fraud. And abuse, to me, feels relatively nonexistent. And the reason is — I think we have a bias as people coming from the tech industry where we worked at companies, you know, such as Google, Facebook, these companies that have plenty of money, are funded by investors and have lots of people kind of sitting around doing nothing.

An insanely insightful statement.

Re:Former DOGE engineer on his experience working for the co... by naijaboiler on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @07:53PM (#44186879)
Duh. Anybody serious could have told him that.
Re:Former DOGE engineer on his experience working for the co... by FootballBat on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @05:58PM (#44185985)
FAANG is daycare for adults.
Re:Former DOGE engineer on his experience working for the co... by kridsdale3 on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @06:08PM (#44186070)
I thought it was pretty well understood that the purpose of these companies is to overhire overqualified people simply to keep them busy doing things that are just enjoyable enough, with great perks, that they won't consider leaving the megacorp and focusing their talents to create viable startups that are a genuine threat to the monopoly.
Re:Former DOGE engineer on his experience working for the co... by robocat on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @06:16PM (#44186132)
Why does that myth persist?

The numbers don't make economic sense for a company.

And truly productive people are not the type to be motivated by dollars (to do boring makework).

Re:Former DOGE engineer on his experience working for the co... by 9283409232 on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @06:27PM (#44186210)
It's not a myth. Executives just don't do as much as you think and the numbers don't need to make economic sense when you have a bottomless VC fund to pull from.
Re:Former DOGE engineer on his experience working for the co... by apothegm on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @09:46PM (#44187537)
It’s not to prevent them starting startups. It’s to prevent them being hired by other FAANGs.