Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
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Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
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#2Why does wework even have tech roles?
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#3What do five HUNDRED people in tech do at an office rental company?
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#4This is why they are a pretend tech company. Tech roles are the company otherwise. This is part of the likely 2,000/15,000.
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#5If you’ve been inside of a WeWork office, there is a pretty advanced process in place for checking in and alerting different people about you being there. It felt a bit over-engineered when I went there, but I suppose that is the kind of stuff these “tech roles” worked on.
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#6Why does wework even have tech roles?
Infrastructure and software are hard.
Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
#7What do five HUNDRED people in tech do at an office rental company?
Without meaning any offense to anyone, I am also genuinely curious how is a company such as Twitter have so many employees? Outsiders like myself know what goes into running GE or Tesla (and is easy to understand), but I would really appreciate someone from silicon valley enlighten about various needs for a company such as Twitter (or WeWork, etc.); what really goes on inside the doors, how are teams organized, what are some of the most challenging problems?
If I were running Twitter, I would freeze the feature creep, have a robust security and site-reliability team, perhaps make small improvements to UI/UX by eliminating friction/impedance. Similar to how Craigslist and surprisingly how Ebay is today - it is pretty much the same experience as 2008, I vividly remember. Instead, engineering resources can be channeled to new ventures (or augmentation projects) for additional growth.
Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
#8What do five HUNDRED people in tech do at an office rental company?
According to [0], apparently at least some of them are involved with exploring fancy over-engineered tech-stacks
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#9A WeWork recruiter recently sent me a SRE job role and I just laughed.
Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
#10What do five HUNDRED people in tech do at an office rental company?
Without meaning any offense to anyone, I am also genuinely curious how is a company such as Twitter have so many employees? Outsiders like myself know what goes into running GE or Tesla (and is easy to understand), but I would really appreciate someone from silicon valley enlighten about various needs for a company such as Twitter (or WeWork, etc.); what really goes on inside the doors, how are teams organized, what…
Because at scale small changes can save or make a company more money than an engineers salary.
Simply making a process 2% more efficient can save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Or increasing advertising conversions by 1%. etc etc.