I wouldn't mind trying to build the new IG or Facebook, but issue is how to fund it without angel investors or others who push towards eyeball/click/attention-frenzy we have today.
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
How much leetcoding do their PMs do? I understand your overall point, but I don't think having a high algorithmic/data structures whiteboarding bar for their engineers correlates to Facebook's weakening product abilities. Ditto for Google.
I think it does. As much as companies want to believe that product runs the product, an engineer that can create new things that influences the product is massively more valuable. Amazon commonly has engineers drive new innovations, product people nowhere to be seen
I've worked for Apple and Product Management absolutely runs the product.
Engineers of course have entry points into this process but ultimately they aren't responsible for the overall process of what, how and when things get build.
You act like you know better than all of these companies so maybe you can try building a multi-billion business with just engineers. Good luck with that.
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#163“I guarantee that every single person who liked and shared that post about bringing Instagram back to what it was, would spend way less time on Instagram if it reverted back to how it used to be” Sure, because they could get the information they want without having to wade through the mountains of crap you’re pumping out of the septic tank into your users faces. You’re optimising the wrong metric you fucking clown.
You seem to forget that the user is the product, this is all not about his pleasure. As a publicly traded company you may not counter act this.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are Chinese companies doing metaverse wise?
Yeah, the parent left us on a bit of a cliffhanger there re China.
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#165Equating "cares about something else more" with "doesn't care" is pretty toxic. Instagram is a big company that doesn't have feelings, so whatever, but this isn't a healthy discussion habit to reinforce.
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#166Theory on facebook failure/Google failure to innovate: They have the highest leetcode standards out of FAANG. As does Snap. They hire people that basically memorized computer science algorithms. And so their employees are bookish, not innovative people. Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon do not have the same issues with creating new products. Keith Rabois (top VC), mentioned that FB has always prioritized optimization over…
I wonder how many of the people echoing this sentiment have tried and failed to clear the Leetcode bar at these top companies. It's hard to explain this level of consensus as anything other than motivated reasoning. As an earlier commenter stated, "I can believe that Leetcode is uncorrelated with creativity, but I have a hard time believing it's inversely correlated."
The anti-Leetcode leaning on this site has the same flavor to me as the anti-crypto leaning. If you missed out on the easiest money in history (as I did), you're going to have a strong psychological block on accepting that crypto can be interesting or positive, and you're going to be drawn to arguments saying it's doomed to disappear. I have to explicitly set aside my emotions about that topic in order to see it for what it is.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
>TikTok's only 'innovation' is paying billions of dollars to teenagers to create meme videos TikTok has at least done three innovative things. One is the frictionless sign in that doesn't require an account, secondly the well done video editing tools and most importantly abstracting away the social graph. And on the finance site this doesn't check out either. TikTok is on track to triple revenue this year alone and t…
> Of all the social media site TikTok arguably chips in the least amount of money themselves. How do you know that?
hank green video on tiktok creator fund: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAZapFzpP64
article recap: https://www.tubefilter.com/2022/01/24/hank-green-tiktok-crea...
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#168Theory on facebook failure/Google failure to innovate: They have the highest leetcode standards out of FAANG. As does Snap. They hire people that basically memorized computer science algorithms. And so their employees are bookish, not innovative people. Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon do not have the same issues with creating new products. Keith Rabois (top VC), mentioned that FB has always prioritized optimization over…
The ones coming up with products are usually executives looking to advance their career. e.g. everyone I know who worked on Google Stadia who cared readily pointed out all the problems from idea to implementation. Management & product design waved off the concerns, said they were in for the long haul, and that the product would be a huge success regardless. And then they got cold feet after realizing how much of a fl…
I've had a couple young people complain to me about leetcode interviews at Google. I replied that they could spend a couple weeks going over the leetcode books, and if that was what it took to get a $250,000 job, then that will be the best investment of time they'd ever make.
Besides, one cannot help but learn programming things from examining leetcode solutions.
Google probably also wants to hire motivated people, and people who will study up on leetcode will be a better hire than a lazy one who doesn't want to put in the work.
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#169How do the micro kitchens look nowadays. That’s where people will realize how the company is really doing
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#170Theory on facebook failure/Google failure to innovate: They have the highest leetcode standards out of FAANG. As does Snap. They hire people that basically memorized computer science algorithms. And so their employees are bookish, not innovative people. Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon do not have the same issues with creating new products. Keith Rabois (top VC), mentioned that FB has always prioritized optimization over…
> Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon do not have the same issues with creating new products.
Microsoft? Really? Is Azure more innovative than Cloud? Where is MSFT innovating? Acquiring Xbox and Minecraft?
And for that matter, where is Amazon innovating outside of AWS (their primary profit engine)?
FB & Google innovate in Ad Tech - that's their core business.
Apple is just more in your face about innovation because their core business is convincing people they need to endlessly spend $2000 every year to get the latest and greatest gadgets.
Even Exxon is innovative in gas exploration... All decent companies are innovative in their core business. Some core businesses aren't as sexy as AirPods.