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The difference lies in perception. Or to put it more elegantly, if you like (or at least can tolerate) that specific flavor of Kool-Aid.
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Check out his LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickshyu - from the projects he describes there, seems like he can back it up. And what's wrong with telling people you're an "ex googler/facebook"? If that's the experience you have to share, fair enough.
There's nothing wrong with telling people you're an "ex googler", but mentioning it whenever you can is quite... weird? I mean from Youtuber that wants to get viewers perspective it's perfectly reasonable, but generally it looks not nice for me.
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Check out his LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickshyu - from the projects he describes there, seems like he can back it up. And what's wrong with telling people you're an "ex googler/facebook"? If that's the experience you have to share, fair enough.
There's nothing wrong with telling people you're an "ex googler", but mentioning it whenever you can is quite... weird? I mean from Youtuber that wants to get viewers perspective it's perfectly reasonable, but generally it looks not nice for me.
Basing on his milion videos that use "ex googler/facebook" in title to lure people, how he ain't just programming celebrity? Why should I care about his opinion?
From what I can gather the guy is going in on satirical comedy. Specifically in the way we tend to evangelise these big tech companies and those who work for them. Sometimes his delivery is so deadpan that I get an odious vibe from it. But it does seem that he’s not serious and is using his previous status as a part of the humour.
He's almost as good at selling advertisements as Facebook.
I'm not defending Facebook nor attacking Shye, I just want to say that rules are pretty much the same for different games so why criticising one and accepting the other?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-brF6SUXbns Brutal and hilarious. Good deadpan. "Without a doubt Facebook is one of the best offices I've worked in ... open office is like working in a warehouse, food is good, they have decent coffee."
In my experience of working for corporations, all of them tend to be cult-like. Office politics: bringing down others to cut ahead, cutting deals, favoritism, etc. are the norm and your work and quality of it matters very little in the long run as long as you can deliver something on time. The difference lies in perception. Or to put it more elegantly, if you like (or at least can tolerate) that specific flavor of Ko…
Watching a friend of mine land her dream job and imbibe the KoolAid has been very interesting...
What about the KoolAid that HN drinks against anything Facebook, Google ? Biased takes without even reading the article.
The cultural characterisation seems completely accurate to me.
Everybody plays multiple games of performative open plan activity, pushing other people to join their projects, all with the friendly face of 'make the world a better place' while counting their RSUs.