They mention macOS as "one platform with consistent APIs and behavior". But macOS (or NeXTStep, as it started out as), an actual UNIX system (certified!), chose not to use X11 to achieve that, but to entirely roll their…
We're moving in circles, but again, I don't believe a company can bring out good products for very long if my experience is the exception. And as so often the case, the "half dozen" other people might be venting for…
And in my experience, FAANG are not bad at it, so my point is: These generalizations don't work. I even stated that I don't doubt this may have been true for you. But if every large company were really so bad in general…
I said: "I never played any game to be promoted, I simply never consciously sought the goal of promotion, and I was promoted anyway just because of the real, substantial job I did." And I did see other peers who did not…
I am not sure it is realistic to expect that all the good engineers never get promoted and that there would still be something good coming out over time.
I did sometimes, though it still benefitted something in the end. After all, my boss and other people further up the chain have a say in whether I get promoted as well, not just my peers.
I don't understand this question, can you elaborate?
Just look in front of you. The monitor you are using right now. That's incredible technology. You think that would be possible if people did not care about engineering, having a number of peers around them across…
> I feel sorry for those FAANG engineers who can't break free from the golden handcuffs and actually do something valuable with their time. I bet there is a lot of jobs where you don't feel (and probably don't do)…
> I left FAANG basically because you had to play the politics and self-promotion game to get promoted. I have no reason to doubt that in the particular corner of your organization that may well have been the case, but…
That is a bit too much of a generalization. I mean, sure, what you describe does in all likelihood exist somewhere in some capacity in any company that is large enough (and likely many smaller ones as well), because…
Not true, and just more complex in general. EDIT: I just looked at some of your other comments. I think you mean well and have some impressive knowledge for someone not working on those things, but some of it is also…
They mention macOS as "one platform with consistent APIs and behavior". But macOS (or NeXTStep, as it started out as), an actual UNIX system (certified!), chose not to use X11 to achieve that, but to entirely roll their…
We're moving in circles, but again, I don't believe a company can bring out good products for very long if my experience is the exception. And as so often the case, the "half dozen" other people might be venting for…
And in my experience, FAANG are not bad at it, so my point is: These generalizations don't work. I even stated that I don't doubt this may have been true for you. But if every large company were really so bad in general…
I said: "I never played any game to be promoted, I simply never consciously sought the goal of promotion, and I was promoted anyway just because of the real, substantial job I did." And I did see other peers who did not…
I am not sure it is realistic to expect that all the good engineers never get promoted and that there would still be something good coming out over time.
I did sometimes, though it still benefitted something in the end. After all, my boss and other people further up the chain have a say in whether I get promoted as well, not just my peers.
I don't understand this question, can you elaborate?
Just look in front of you. The monitor you are using right now. That's incredible technology. You think that would be possible if people did not care about engineering, having a number of peers around them across…
> I feel sorry for those FAANG engineers who can't break free from the golden handcuffs and actually do something valuable with their time. I bet there is a lot of jobs where you don't feel (and probably don't do)…
> I left FAANG basically because you had to play the politics and self-promotion game to get promoted. I have no reason to doubt that in the particular corner of your organization that may well have been the case, but…
That is a bit too much of a generalization. I mean, sure, what you describe does in all likelihood exist somewhere in some capacity in any company that is large enough (and likely many smaller ones as well), because…
Not true, and just more complex in general. EDIT: I just looked at some of your other comments. I think you mean well and have some impressive knowledge for someone not working on those things, but some of it is also…