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> childish perks like free food Ahh yes, food, such a childish thing.
Conveniently dropped the ‘free’ I see. Whenever I interviewed with companies and they mentioned free meals or fridges full of sodas as a perk, that was a red flag. Companies like IBM and Microsoft had on-site cafeterias and coffee shops usually with subsidized pricing and it never came up in in interviews.
> The last real deflation in tech was all the way back in 2000, 2001. There’s almost no one working in tech now who was around for that. Oh?
> The last real deflation in tech was all the way back in 2000, 2001. There’s almost no one working in tech now who was around for that. Oh?
As long as tech companies remain fantastically profitable the culture will not change. I see this as just a sour grapes piece from a journalist who has to cover tech from outside the bubble.
> The last real deflation in tech was all the way back in 2000, 2001. There’s almost no one working in tech now who was around for that. Oh?
Almost no one doesn’t mean no one. There’s been so much growth in the industry in the past 20 years that even if everyone working in 2001 was still working now, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were a small minority compared to the sea of new talent
Software is ultimately about replacing inefficient human communication and we still have a lot of that.
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Almost no one doesn’t mean no one. There’s been so much growth in the industry in the past 20 years that even if everyone working in 2001 was still working now, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were a small minority compared to the sea of new talent
Depends on where you work, obviously. In my organization (at a FAANG), people in their 40s are probably a (very slim) majority.
"Tech is mature and growth is over". I remember that consensus headline from the 1980s.
Fast forward a few years, and a crop of startups (that innovated while the incumbents belt-tightened) blindside previously unassailable monopolies.
I find it kind of ironic that they use Facebook and Google as examples in the article.
Remember when FB bought the Sun campus, stripped it to concrete walls, and grafitti'ed the hell out of it? Google HQ is the fossilized remains of the SGI campus.
The big question now is: Who is going to dethrone the current rudderless big tech companies, and how will they do it?
The Silicon Valley culture was aimed at attracting younger talent away from established companies, with childish perks like free food and video games, and a less rigid work structure. But it was never going be sustainable. At the core, the ‘promise’ that these new tech companies alluded to one day had to actually appear. And the slow creep of government regulation was always going to catch up too. I always assumed mo…