How is a company like that supposed to make money? Without a plan to be sustainable doesn’t it have to end in tears?
You sell the talent at the company to Google.
Isn't that "end in tears?"
How I Failed to Change Wasmer
41–50 of 73 posts
Re: How I Failed to Change Wasmer
#42I interviewed with Wasmer a few weeks ago. It wasn't enough time to get a real inner view into the company but I saw enough to give me pause. They set up an interview for 3 hours, which stretched into 4 hours. During this interview both interviewers had to leave at points to attend other meetings. After this, they wanted another interview. Sure, I guess one 3 hour interview isn't enough. They first scheduled it in th…
> the bug turned out to actually be two bugs sitting next to each other
I have to ask...did you check github after the fact to see if these were real bugs that they used your interview time to solve? Would be funny if there was a commit shortly therafter...
Re: How I Failed to Change Wasmer
#43I tried and tried to fix a dysfunctional environment on a contract and my boss (also from the contract company) kept telling me “you can’t fix stupid”. Oddly despite being upbeat he was the first to quit. I have driven culture forward before, but a couple lucky breaks can make you think you have more control than you really have and subsequently failing to change other people can feel like a personal failing instead…
Yeah, my experience with company culture, is that you can exude a positive aura. You can make the people around you less miserable. You can put gentle pressure on other parts of the org to be just a little better. This all helps. A lot. But, it wasn't until certain toxic people left or were put in their place by upper management, that the real improvements came at the places I worked. These are things you just can't control. And if the toxicity is coming from the highest levels, there's just nothing to be done but try to buffer it best you can from those around you, and find ways to let it fall off your back so you don't internalize it.
Re: How I Failed to Change Wasmer
#44> I’ve joined the Wasmer company at its early beginning, in March 2019. The company was 3 months old. I had no idea that Wasmer, Inc. was a company. The home page, wasmer.io, says nothing about a company and reads like an open source project landing page. Way at the bottom is a banana button to "Contact Sales" that's just an email address. What's the product Wasmer is selling? Clicking through to "about," I see nothi…
> What's the product Wasmer is selling?
Wasmer is an implementation of Wasm.
Re: How I Failed to Change Wasmer
#45Syrus Akbary the founder clearly has issues, as evidenced by his public smackdown and disrespect of Mozilla employees working on WASM which was hinted at in this blog post.
Is that something to do with lin clark (forgive me if there is mistake in name). But yes this is not the first time I have heard bad about wasmer. I don't know if ceo was involved in that impertinent act. Its really painful to see people suffer :(
It is indeed, sadly because Lin is awesome. So is the entire Mozilla team doing pioneering work with WASM, fyi they mostly moved over to Fastly where they're continuing their work.
Re: How I Failed to Change Wasmer
#46> I’ve joined the Wasmer company at its early beginning, in March 2019. The company was 3 months old. I had no idea that Wasmer, Inc. was a company. The home page, wasmer.io, says nothing about a company and reads like an open source project landing page. Way at the bottom is a banana button to "Contact Sales" that's just an email address. What's the product Wasmer is selling? Clicking through to "about," I see nothi…
> What's the product Wasmer is selling? Wasmer is an implementation of Wasm.
Yeah a free open source implementation. How are they planning on making money?
Re: How I Failed to Change Wasmer
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What's the product Wasmer is selling? Wasmer is an implementation of Wasm.
Yeah a free open source implementation. How are they planning on making money?
For example how does Oracle make money from MySQL, a free open source implementation of a database? They sell support.
Re: How I Failed to Change Wasmer
#48Really sorry to hear this. I was kind of cheering for Wasmer as it seemed to be making a really nice WASM runtime and adding great tooling around it, including the package manager. I had always thought that Mozilla and the WASM WG were being a little bit "jealous" of Wasmer, intentionally making things difficult for them by moving repositories together with their competing (actually, the standard WASM runtime) wasmti…
> They're not and they'll forget you as soon as you leave (and you, them).
This may well be true in lots of places; I wouldn't know, having only limited working experience at this point. But I worked for a while at a startup of 5-10 people, and this was very much _not_ the case. Perhaps it was the size of the company. I still have good memories of working there (even if the application domain eventually proved to not suit me well), and even now I have mostly-inactive but still very friendly contact with one of the founders.
There are also good people on this planet.
Re: How I Failed to Change Wasmer
#49I feel for the author, but he keeps talking about "love" and "passion". Perspective is needed. It's a way to run some code. It's alright to be excited by what you work on but it's just a mechanical thing. Don't wrap your self identity into it.
If 80% of your engineers are leaving its just a bad workplace. You don't have to apologize for leaving.
Re: How I Failed to Change Wasmer
#50I interviewed with Wasmer a few weeks ago. It wasn't enough time to get a real inner view into the company but I saw enough to give me pause. They set up an interview for 3 hours, which stretched into 4 hours. During this interview both interviewers had to leave at points to attend other meetings. After this, they wanted another interview. Sure, I guess one 3 hour interview isn't enough. They first scheduled it in th…
What an awful story, I'm sorry you had to endure that. My undergrad is in applied math and I would never even dream of calling myself a "mathematician", so, yeah, tells you a lot about the guy.
That's a funny standard, and not that I disagree--quite the contrary--but once you get an undergrad in engineering you're an engineer right? Sure, there is an expectation to pass the FE exam but is being employed as an engineer a requirement to "be an engineer"?
I hear a lot of people with a BS in Comp Science that call themselves computer scientists which seems mostly inaccurate too.
It's just odd, these titles and what qualifies you to call yourself a thing.