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Attorney. Build a system, work from anywhere, make your own schedule. Hard to outsource.
What does build a system mean?
EDIT: Picked attorney because you have to be licensed to practice law, creating a barrier to the equivalent of code bootcamps. My apologies if the model around the idea wasn't clear, I will do better!
Oof to this link in the post https://www.brex.com/journal/operate-at-all-levels What a terrible culture, dunking on people management, calling it meaningless And no, I don't want the Director of AI to explain react component rendering to me, it sounds like they are grooming a generation of super-micromanaging executives. Maybe the CTO was kicked out after he failed to complete 3 back to back leetcode hards
I like that they shared publicly the severance package (I missed that in a company before, the severance package was only available to the ones laid off, and you wouldn't even know if you got the same as your colleagues). And the package itself seems alright too (and sensible, for example: the laid off can keep their laptops. What would company do with almost 300 extra laptops?). Time of the lay off also not too bad…
> Time of the lay off also not too bad (firing people in November/December is really uncool). I don’t understand this. Why is it uncool? And why is January better? I guess it doesn’t let people enjoy their vacations. But on the flip side, isn’t that a good thing? You can curb expenses on the vacation/holidays.
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Really? I would have assumed that attorney is one of those jobs that is going to be hugely disrupted by AI. Should people new to the field bother if they aren't going to be top X% (5? 10?)?
For people without the resources, yes. For people that have a problem and resources, no. They pay for the best and want to be sure it‘s watertight.
The best programmers make good money too.
I like that they shared publicly the severance package (I missed that in a company before, the severance package was only available to the ones laid off, and you wouldn't even know if you got the same as your colleagues). And the package itself seems alright too (and sensible, for example: the laid off can keep their laptops. What would company do with almost 300 extra laptops?). Time of the lay off also not too bad…
> Time of the lay off also not too bad (firing people in November/December is really uncool). I don’t understand this. Why is it uncool? And why is January better? I guess it doesn’t let people enjoy their vacations. But on the flip side, isn’t that a good thing? You can curb expenses on the vacation/holidays.
Interesting that the CFO and CTO also got the boot, but the positions weren’t eliminated. Is this a power grab? Or am I misreading?
It's not clear to me how you would have a company of this size without a CTO or CFO. I'm interested in why your expectation is that the roles themselves would be eliminated, versus bringing in people who might perform better?
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Attorney. Build a system, work from anywhere, make your own schedule. Hard to outsource.
Really? I would have assumed that attorney is one of those jobs that is going to be hugely disrupted by AI. Should people new to the field bother if they aren't going to be top X% (5? 10?)?
Doc review staff will be effectively eliminated...but they're already being eliminated by non-AI technology, so AI will just be the last straw.
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What does build a system mean?
Focus on a niche, create a funnel, be very good at that niche, scale horizontally. EDIT: Picked attorney because you have to be licensed to practice law, creating a barrier to the equivalent of code bootcamps. My apologies if the model around the idea wasn't clear, I will do better!