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I know it's in fashion to have a cutesy name for your employees these days, but "Dutonian" is really stretching it haha.
It is a bit silly, but I kinda like it. I'm generally pretty anti-koolaid, but having a shared unique term for yourself and your coworkers seems like a reasonable way to build some positive tribalism, even if it's a stretch linguistically.
I know it's in fashion to have a cutesy name for your employees these days, but "Dutonian" is really stretching it haha.
Oh shit, here we go again. The Dutonians join the Googlers, Xooglers, Nooglers, Metamates, Amazonians, Mozillians, Stripes, Tweeps, Peeps, Veeps, Elasticians, SoundHounders, Vimeans, Rackers, Krakenites, Latticians and Plaids.
Kinda doesn't really sound right for names like Meta I admit, but metamates is just cringe inducing
This pattern of laying people off for short term gains is for the birds. It affects the entire industry when patterns like this become normalized. If you wonder why engineers don't stay around more than three years or have perceivably less loyalty, remember these events.
With my VP Eng hat on, PagerDuty is a useful service With my VP Operations hat on, I can't justify the pricing Wearing both hats at the same time, I built the solution my company needed inside a weekend and allocated funds elsewhere
With my VP Eng hat on, PagerDuty is a useful service With my VP Operations hat on, I can't justify the pricing Wearing both hats at the same time, I built the solution my company needed inside a weekend and allocated funds elsewhere
- PagerDuty is great when my budget is big and I need something ASAP - Buy vs Build.
- Home grown alternative is great when the word from Finance is the cost savings to build is now more important than the time it takes.
With my VP Eng hat on, PagerDuty is a useful service With my VP Operations hat on, I can't justify the pricing Wearing both hats at the same time, I built the solution my company needed inside a weekend and allocated funds elsewhere
> Revenue Officer to Exit Is that an exec taking responsibility? Respect, I guess.
I know it's in fashion to have a cutesy name for your employees these days, but "Dutonian" is really stretching it haha.
I prefer "Duters" or Duterionos"
But I guess I have to echo what others are saying, it's eye-roll-worthy some of the demonyms these companies come up with. So lame.
I never understood PagerDuty. Isn't it just IFTTT with SMS and email at scale? What is their moat even?
Their moat is the same as Jira's. Despite being expensive, and easily replaced by a bevy of alternatives, management are familiar with the name and purchase it.
At least for JIRA (and SAP), there is another aspect as well: users know how to use it, and it has a halfway decent UI when compared to stuff such as Bugzilla. Avoiding training existing and new employees in bespoke software is a business value on its own.
> Despite executing well over the last eight quarters, sustaining high growth and dramatically improving operating margins, there is more to do to secure PagerDuty’s future. This pattern of laying people off for short term gains is for the birds. It affects the entire industry when patterns like this become normalized. If you wonder why engineers don't stay around more than three years or have perceivably less loyalt…