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> A decade ago, it was a real flex in San Francisco to say you worked at Meta, Google, Apple, Tesla ... That’s not what it feels like anymore. Sure but that's just because there ar…

> At very large software companies, programming ability, technical expertise, and raw resources are not the limiting factors. Coordination is. If coordination is your limiting fact…

Until recently? Now it's 20x at the AI labs instead of 5x at FAANG.

Maybe OP learned these things precisely because he saw the consequences of them not being done

Even if we suppose all those things are true (not a given), I would not expect these layoffs to meaningfully change them.

Because their hiring process will just hire more employees who will take advantage of the system

I think CEO types simply believe (rightly or wrongly) that a large number of people are taking advantage of WFH to barely work.

> 'generating new code' is a small part of the job I think this attitude has been taken too far to the point that people (especially senior+ engineers) end up spending massive amou…

> you say some filler to get someone incapable of understanding what it is that you're doing off your back for 24 more hours has consistently been one of the most useless and unple…

it's very hard to tell when an individual has solved a problem that otherwise would have taken 5 people to solve... so you'll likely find that it's much easier for big tech to rewa…