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Engineering Managers will also begin to code again [1] [1] https://twitter.com/TitterTakeover/status/162873730347973836...
This whole management heavy culture needs to F off. 9/10 people who wants to be a manager are awful as software engineers and they know this is the only way they can stay in the game. Out of those who do become engineering managers it seems all they do is talk a bunch of nonsense and add tremendous levels of roadblocks because they suck at understanding the actual technical problems and I’ll be honest. They’re usuall…
Yes there are awful engineering managers just as there are great ones who are force multipliers for their teams. I've known great engineering managers who were great engineers who naturally became an interface for their teams and some who weren't very technical but were great people managers that got great outcomes for individuals and teams.
Org design, culture, complexity, needs determine the necessity of an engineering management function. Do orgs and engineering management functions become dysfunctional? Yes. Can this be resolved by just eliminating the management layer? Hardly.
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Maybe this will be true in the years going forward, but AFAIK even in 2022 they were still considered top tier FAANG to work for among new grads, if only for the fact that compensation is generally somewhat higher than their peers.
New grads have lost their minds. It is really sad to see the state of affairs. When we were coming out we used to shun large companies. Now they are joining large companies. Sad!
The problem is Meta's headsets have a very core-gamer focused audience left over from the Oculus days, though they've started to pivot away from this in recent years. It's nowhere near ready for a mainstream audience to use for social connections. The headsets are too bulky, the interface is too complicated, and the apps require too much setup, character creation, and are just too involved. Nothing right now passes the grandma test.
One round of layoffs at every company is just coming off the hiring bender of the last few years. But a second... that portends a third... and a general collapse of tech a la the dotcom crash. I had't been too worried yet, despite feeling lucky to have dodged the customary 7% at my company, but this news is starting to make me worry. Hopefully it's just Meta being in a uniquely bad position.
The layoffs are nowhere near the level of even appearing in a histogram against the hiring that overwhelmed 2021/22. Where this doomering comes from must be the plain human temptation to glorify misery.
I would not invest in Meta's metaverse future. It feels like Windows Mobile. Meta has the early start, money, captive audience and enthusiasm, but they don't have the hardware/software edge (that Apple coincidentally also has this time around) to really make the idea work. The headsets are not going to revolutionize much running Facebook games on budget Qualcomm SoCs, and Facebook cant buy an Unreal Engine or an M2 P…
Latest qualcomm SoCs seem pretty competitive in mobile market (3d mark): Snapdragon 8 Gen 2: 12726 (76 fps) A16 Bionic: 9827 (58 fps) https://nanoreview.net/en/soc-compare/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-...
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Latest qualcomm SoCs seem pretty competitive in mobile market (3d mark): Snapdragon 8 Gen 2: 12726 (76 fps) A16 Bionic: 9827 (58 fps) https://nanoreview.net/en/soc-compare/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-...
A16 should be compared with Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, Samsung and Qualcomm always play this release half year later with “better performance at cost of energy consumption” game.
Phones with A16 were available in September 2022.
Phones with a SM8550 (Snapdragon 8 gen 2) were available in January, 2023.
You're saying it is unreasonable to compare the last two (4 months apart), and instead the valid comparison is between the first two (8 months apart). That doesn't seem fair.