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Post by 0xpgm »

walrushunter wrote: post #56

I'm an engineering manager at a Fortune 500 company. The dumbest engineer on our team left for Netflix. He got a pay raise too. Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch. If you think Netflix hires top tier talent, you don't know Netflix.

An engineering manager who thinks his engineers are morons and dumb?

I have questions..

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Post by marxisttemp »

causality0 wrote: post #33

Weird that an organization like Netflix is having problems with this considering their depth of both experience and pockets. I wonder if they didn't expect the number of people who were interested in finding out what the pay-per-view experience is like without spending any extra money. Still, I suppose we can all be thankful Netflix is getting to cut their live event teeth on "alleged rapist vs convicted rapist" inst…

> alleged rapist vs convicted rapist

And you’ll never guess which Presidential candidate they both support!

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Post by wordofx »

walrushunter wrote: post #56

I'm an engineering manager at a Fortune 500 company. The dumbest engineer on our team left for Netflix. He got a pay raise too. Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch. If you think Netflix hires top tier talent, you don't know Netflix.

None of the Fortune 500 companies hire top talent. They have a few good people but 98% of the engineers are average at best. Over paid.

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Post by AlotOfReading »

walrushunter wrote: post #56

I'm an engineering manager at a Fortune 500 company. The dumbest engineer on our team left for Netflix. He got a pay raise too. Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch. If you think Netflix hires top tier talent, you don't know Netflix.

I've never seen a team that has somehow managed to hire exclusively morons. Even the shittiest of call center jobs and construction crews have a few people with enough brain cells to tie their shoelaces.

Have you considered that maybe you're being overly harsh about your co-workers? Maybe take the fact that one of them was hired by a top paying employer as a sign that you should improve your own ability to judge skill?

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Post by anakaine »

moralestapia wrote: post #76
walrushunter wrote: post #56

I'm an engineering manager at a Fortune 500 company. The dumbest engineer on our team left for Netflix. He got a pay raise too. Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch. If you think Netflix hires top tier talent, you don't know Netflix.

I can +1 with a similar anecdote. They obviously have some really good engineers, but many low-tier ones as well. No idea how long they stay there, though. I'm watching the fight now and have experienced the buffering issues. Bit embarrassing for a company that fundamentally only does a single thing, which is this. Also, yeah, 900k TC and whatnot but irl you get this. Mediocre.

I have to wonder if its a regional thing. I'm watching from the southern pacific in HD, and its been excellent.

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Post by djbusby »

walrushunter wrote: post #56

I'm an engineering manager at a Fortune 500 company. The dumbest engineer on our team left for Netflix. He got a pay raise too. Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch. If you think Netflix hires top tier talent, you don't know Netflix.

Why is your team morons? Kind of disparaging maybe? Fish rots from the head situation?

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Post by that_guy_iain »

walrushunter wrote: post #56

I'm an engineering manager at a Fortune 500 company. The dumbest engineer on our team left for Netflix. He got a pay raise too. Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch. If you think Netflix hires top tier talent, you don't know Netflix.

Having worked with a bunch of guys who have gone on to "top teams", I no longer believe they have top teams. My fav was the guy who said the system could scale indefinitely after it literally fell on its ass from too much traffic. He couldn't understand that just because Lambdas my themselves can scale, they are limited by the resources they use, so just ignored it and insisted that it could. The same guy also kept on saying we should change the TPEG standard because he didn't like how it worked. And these companies are seriously pretending they've got the best and brightest. If that's really true, I really need to find another profession.
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