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I don't think that (even) more developers for G+ will solve ... anything.
The "G+ is dead/dying" canard again? Really?
it says nothing about the usage nr. of G+. but that the G+ has product issues is clear as day, even to - most - fanboys.
My first full-time job offer as I was wrapping up college in 2007 was from Meebo. At the time, they were about 12 employees. I didn't realize it at the time, as it was my first time going through the interview/offer dance, but having much more experience with these things now (from both sides of the process), I can honestly say it ranks as the best I've ever heard of. a) The technical portion of the interview was the…
My first full-time job offer as I was wrapping up college in 2007 was from Meebo. At the time, they were about 12 employees. I didn't realize it at the time, as it was my first time going through the interview/offer dance, but having much more experience with these things now (from both sides of the process), I can honestly say it ranks as the best I've ever heard of. a) The technical portion of the interview was the…
My first full-time job offer as I was wrapping up college in 2007 was from Meebo. At the time, they were about 12 employees. I didn't realize it at the time, as it was my first time going through the interview/offer dance, but having much more experience with these things now (from both sides of the process), I can honestly say it ranks as the best I've ever heard of. a) The technical portion of the interview was the…
what offer did you think was more attractive than what they offered?
You live, you learn.
I was expecting this or a shut-down announcement soon. Meebo has never been able to provide something valuable to enough people to become a going concern.
I don't think that's true. They had a lot of people using their messenger client. More to do with mistakes and execution. Why did they take $70m in funding? That's a ridiculous amount of investment to take. Why couldn't they monetize that amount of eyeballs?
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The talent. Meebo was started by Stanford grads... Can we please get over this dopey fixation on big-name elite schools?
Unfortunately tons of firms put a huge value in this. Try getting a high level rockstar-ninja-badass (lol) engineer job, especially at a bay area startup, without some sort of pedigree from a named institution. Its bullshit, but reality. Google used to, might still, place a degree from a top-tier institution as the first requirement in upper level job postings.
I've worked at or (or received employment offers from) quite a few "name brand" Bay Area technology companies, have received recruitment email/etc. from many more, despite going to a university most haven't heard of.
Silicon Valley is much more meritocratic than Wall Street: if you can't pass a coding interview, the name on your diploma will not help you. A name on your diploma might make it easier to get interviews lined up as a student, but undergraduate research, open source contributions, referrals from other employees, are much more useful for that purpose.
That's not to say SV is without its own brand of homogeneity: ironically, whenever I am on Stanford campus, I am amazed at how much more diverse it is compared to the rest of Palo Alto.