I'm getting close to the end of my third decade as a software developer and one constant I've observed is that your actual performance is irrelevant, however it's measured - the only thing that matters is how much everybody else likes you (as depressing or reassuring as that may be for one's particular circumstances).
Yeah I’m around the same time on the clock and when I’m asked how to be successful in your career my primary advice is being successful in your work is neither necessary nor sufficient to become successful in your career. The only thing that matters is being perceived as successful.
Conversely, it is crucially important that we maintain protections on trade secrets, including profit margins, negotiating tactics, distribution agreements, wages, engineering practices, etc.
Information asymmetry must never benefit the individual.
>Or, as Hoffman put it, “Moneyballing for talent.”
>“It’s very similar to our product, taking as much data as you can at the initiation of meeting someone and use that data as part of this matrix of how you look at them and evaluate,” Youakim said. “We use Wonderlic”—an aptitude test whose validity in a variety of settings has long been controversial—”but it’s not the be-all-end-all for us. It’s a data point. So we look at that. If you’re a younger potential employee, I want to see a transcript. Like how did you do in school? What was your GPA?” Later they referred to SAT scores as another data point.
These guys think they're Billy Bean, but they're the scouts talking about "ugly girlfriend means no confidence".
That's not a bad idea, I could really use a convenient list of dumb things CEOs have done and said so that when I consider applying for a company I don't have to get a random list of current search results and instead can read a concise permanent public record.
The title is clickbait, obviously offensive to approximately everybody. This is just two CEOs of companies you've never heard of, bullshitting on a podcast one of them runs.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 43.9 ms ] threadInformation asymmetry must never benefit the individual.
>“It’s very similar to our product, taking as much data as you can at the initiation of meeting someone and use that data as part of this matrix of how you look at them and evaluate,” Youakim said. “We use Wonderlic”—an aptitude test whose validity in a variety of settings has long been controversial—”but it’s not the be-all-end-all for us. It’s a data point. So we look at that. If you’re a younger potential employee, I want to see a transcript. Like how did you do in school? What was your GPA?” Later they referred to SAT scores as another data point.
These guys think they're Billy Bean, but they're the scouts talking about "ugly girlfriend means no confidence".