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Re: Brex Layoffs

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Post by encoderer »

shmatt wrote: post #35

Oof to this link in the post https://www.brex.com/journal/operate-at-all-levels What a terrible culture, dunking on people management, calling it meaningless And no, I don't want the Director of AI to explain react component rendering to me, it sounds like they are grooming a generation of super-micromanaging executives. Maybe the CTO was kicked out after he failed to complete 3 back to back leetcode hards

Disagree.

this is a founder pushing back against having a leadership caste that can’t actually do the work to drive the business forward themselves.

Re: Brex Layoffs

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Post by madmaxmcfly »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #40
soneca wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you think there is a career out there better than (I assume) software development? My view is that we are still in pretty good times. Maybe not great, but everyone who kept their jobs is still earning a big salary. And everything else other than software development is worse (specifically if you bundle things like ML into “software development“). I am curious. What career would you change to?

Attorney. Build a system, work from anywhere, make your own schedule. Hard to outsource.

Here I am the one to bring up AI, ugh. I get a sense that, of all things, LLM's actually encroach on legal professions the most (aside from copywriters). But this is from an outside perspective. Any insights?

Re: Brex Layoffs

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Post by nurettin »

shmatt wrote: post #35

Oof to this link in the post https://www.brex.com/journal/operate-at-all-levels What a terrible culture, dunking on people management, calling it meaningless And no, I don't want the Director of AI to explain react component rendering to me, it sounds like they are grooming a generation of super-micromanaging executives. Maybe the CTO was kicked out after he failed to complete 3 back to back leetcode hards

This is not even cynicism, it's just grasping at straws.

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Post by homefree »

shmatt wrote: post #35

Oof to this link in the post https://www.brex.com/journal/operate-at-all-levels What a terrible culture, dunking on people management, calling it meaningless And no, I don't want the Director of AI to explain react component rendering to me, it sounds like they are grooming a generation of super-micromanaging executives. Maybe the CTO was kicked out after he failed to complete 3 back to back leetcode hards

It depends - I mostly agree with that blog post.

If a leader doesn't understand the underlying role (at least somewhat) - they can't reason about it. The best people managers I had were good at that skill and took it seriously, but also had a technical understanding of the role.

I think it's relatively common for bad people to get hired to these management roles because the skill can be harder to evaluate than straight engineering. Hire enough of this kind of person and your company dies. It's also why managers get a bad reputation generally - good managers/team leads are excellent, bad ones are neutral at best.

Re: Brex Layoffs

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Post by sam0x17 »

I guess this is what happens 1.5 years later when you decide to kick all LLCs off from using your platform and they all go to use your competitors instead

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Post by chatmasta »

dalyons wrote: post #50
chatmasta wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there some relevance in the comparison to ramp.com or were you just mentioning it as an example?

its effectively their competitor

Oh right... for some reason I thought it was a crypto startup. Maybe that's another Ramp

Re: Brex Layoffs

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Post by madmaxmcfly »

shmatt wrote: post #35

Oof to this link in the post https://www.brex.com/journal/operate-at-all-levels What a terrible culture, dunking on people management, calling it meaningless And no, I don't want the Director of AI to explain react component rendering to me, it sounds like they are grooming a generation of super-micromanaging executives. Maybe the CTO was kicked out after he failed to complete 3 back to back leetcode hards

Where do you read that people management is meaningless? I only read that people management alone isn't the most productive way for anyone to operate

Re: Brex Layoffs

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Post by blast »

sam0x17 wrote: post #56

I guess this is what happens 1.5 years later when you decide to kick all LLCs off from using your platform and they all go to use your competitors instead

What happened there?

Re: Brex Layoffs

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Post by sam0x17 »

blast wrote: post #59
sam0x17 wrote: post #56

I guess this is what happens 1.5 years later when you decide to kick all LLCs off from using your platform and they all go to use your competitors instead

What happened there?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31772847

source: was one of the affected LLCs. Went to Mercury and never looked back!

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