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Re: Coinbase employees petition to remove execs

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Post by hardware2win »

jcims wrote: post #111
highwaylights wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't speak to whether your assertion is true or not (I've no experience of Netflix or it's hiring), but it kind of makes sense that this would happen if you think of the Netflix journey to date. They transitioned from a mail order DVD system to online streaming, building that as they went, then moved the lot to the cloud while keeping everything up during it's exponential growth period. There are a lot of really h…

I'm curious why Zoom doesn't get more shine. In my opinion they were tested like few other companies in history at the start of the pandemic and seem to have pulled it off. My former employer had 60,000 people with technical roles and we all went to zoom in the summer of 2020 after our existing conferencing solution completely shit the bed. I won't say there were zero issues but the number definitely rounds to zero.…

> My former employer had 60,000 people with technical roles and we all went to zoom in the summer of 2020 after our existing conferencing solution completely shit the bed

Do i understand it correctly?

60k ppl left ur job and went to zoom?

Re: Coinbase employees petition to remove execs

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Post by pbreit »

tsimionescu wrote: post #57
fathyb wrote: post #10

Initiatives like the Dot Collector and the Performance review system that has led to a toxic workplace culture I was curious about that "Dot Collector": Dot collector was an application invented by Ray Dalio’s hedge fund and Bridgewater Associates. The application has set its foot in Coinbase since the start of the year and has been in use by the HR and IT teams of the company. The user interface of the app is quite…

> how well they demonstrate the 10 crore Values at coinbase I wonder if these are the 10 core values, or Coinbase actually has 10 crore (100,000,000) values they want employees to think about... Doesn't seem impossible given some HR departments I've seen.

Here they are: https://www.coinbase.com/mission

Not sure what you are trying to mean.

Re: Coinbase employees petition to remove execs

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Post by hardware2win »

jpgvm wrote: post #185
kderbyma wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

they hired the wrong engineers. they focused on infrastructure....no product

Tell me more about how they didn't manage to create a compelling streaming product that failed to gain any market share. Oh wait. That isn't what happened. Is their product now stagnant? Yes. Are they facing market saturation problems and increased competition, withdrawal of content from competitors that were previously partners etc, sure. The engineers they hired were 100% the right engineers, they made streaming wo…

>Netflix team that changed media delivery on the Internet forever.

Genuine question

Whats the diff between them and yt?

Re: Coinbase employees petition to remove execs

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Post by ok_dad »

barmstrong wrote: post #271

Responded here https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/15353049437284147...

Not really, you just degraded your employees who had a complaint and told them their jobs aren’t safe without assessing their concerns, you just dismissed the concerns offfhand. Kinda shitty, IMO, but I don’t have a dog in this race so my opinion is not really important. Good luck navigating the future.

Re: Coinbase employees petition to remove execs

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Post by eric_cc »

tomlockwood wrote: post #210
andrew_ wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We can't possibly know that solely based on (what other comments have rightly pointed out) a vague, anon petition lacking nuance or details. This could just as well be a very small, vocal minority. We have no way of knowing without more information.

One of the stated goals of the no-politics at work stuff was to allow Coinbase staff to "Support each other, and create team cohesion". It doesn't look like that has happened!

How do you know? You can't deduce this from one post.
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