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New comment by Hjack in "Knowing where your engineer salary comes from"

Hjack — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:52:14 +0000

Ads are still bread and butter for Meta. The first to go will be the folks who are in vogue bcoz of cultural reasons, eg. diversity, green, etc. I would even go the extent of saying that a lot of open source maintainers will also be axed, the day Meta stops making ad money and fights for survival. The issue of `attribution` is to be decided at last, when anyway the house is partially burned and the company is fighting for survival. I am talking about the initial phase, where a lot of engineers work on teams that make no monetary/value sense for company and are there, bcoz manager/CEO don't care or are kind(mostly former).

New comment by Hjack in "Knowing where your engineer salary comes from"

Hjack — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:25:40 +0000

But still there are objective metrics by which you can track which products are making money and which are not. You can do ALL the financial manipulation to an extent, but everyone above bragging VPs/Directors know which product lines are making money yoy

New comment by Hjack in "Knowing where your engineer salary comes from"

Hjack — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:18:55 +0000

The whole trend of cracking FAANG/MAANG interviews has made this notion of not having self-awareness/understanding of where money comes far more entrenched. Folks who crack these interviews feel like they are passing sermons from top of 'tech' hill to other noobs, not knowing in effect that their minuscule value is as long is company is making profit. The day that stops, everyone's job is on the line and especially folks who are away from centers which make money.

New comment by Hjack in "Nord Stream: Tie-ins and hyperbaric welding"

Hjack — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 05:37:59 +0000

Looked at this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbAxa-_3h6E, pretty wild.