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PayPal CTO Resigns

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Re: PayPal CTO Resigns

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Post by jusben1369 »

The role of CTO varies so greatly from company to compan . Some are hands on making major decisions. Others are almost academic; looking 18+ months out and responsible for understanding big trends et . Not sure which is the case here. Does anyone know?

Re: PayPal CTO Resigns

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Post by knowaveragejoe »

zrail wrote: post #39
m3rc wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Am I very dense or is this a reference to the tech bubble?

Congratulations you got the reference. Gold stars for everyone!

I assumed people would be drawing this conclusion when I saw the top 3 threads right now. How do we know that is the case and not just statistical anomaly, though?

Re: PayPal CTO Resigns

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Post by knowaveragejoe »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #11
paulftw wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He was CTO, why would infrastructure guy ever be held responsible for poor overall performance? It's not rocket science, nor F1 team

Shit flows downhill and they needed a scapegoat to make the board happy. The general public doesn't know what a CTO does so problem solved nice and neat.

I would disagree along the lines that the general public didn't even know there was a problem. I'm still not even sure what the issue was, myself(besides the usual complaints about paypal).

Re: PayPal CTO Resigns

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Post by losteric »

knowaveragejoe wrote: post #44
zrail wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congratulations you got the reference. Gold stars for everyone!

I assumed people would be drawing this conclusion when I saw the top 3 threads right now. How do we know that is the case and not just statistical anomaly, though?

That was just a joke, for now.

The idea that we're in a bubble on the cusp of collapse has been building over the past year, spiking when the feds raised interest rates, but there's no concrete evidence of a bubble popping. Yet.

Get worried when we see (multiple) high-level execs also resigning from Facebook/Twitter/etc. Especially if it's of their own accord...

Re: PayPal CTO Resigns

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Post by ebiester »

dangrossman wrote: post #30
tyingq wrote: post #23

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They do a lot of things with business accounts that is irritating. For example: - they should be able to remove the annoying "USE PAYPAL CREDIT FOR THIS??!?!?!?!?!" overlay. - show transaction ids on the payment confirmation page, rather than making us navigate to a 2 more pages after paying Oh, and not sure if this is related to just business accounts, but I have to log in twice to get logged in. Some kind of cookie…

> I have to log in twice to get logged in. I've had to log in twice for months as well. I can't comprehend their leaving something so basic broken this long. > And, lastly, since I see you have a few disputes/chargebacks...their chargeback handling process is horrid. I have no beef with their chargeback handling myself. It's something more ridiculous actually. Those 5 "open cases" are cases I opened against a hosting…

Have you ever worked that has technology lasting more than ten years?

There is probably a backlog of 1,000 bugs that all of the developers would love to fix, but they're nasty edge cases in legacy code and would require a major refactor and we have plans on building a full replacement, but product has this new initiative first and...

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