Agreed. The deliberate ignoring the whole world outside FB/Google is a alarming sign that the idea is just to get blog reads by piggybacking the last bombastic statement by someone famous in the sw industry.
The whole world outside of GAFA looks to those companies for "how to do software development right" - no matter if they are right or not.
I've watched more than a few well established companies start to ape Google's hiring practices, or Amazon's churn, or Facebook's development practices just to try and attract new young developers.
The whole world outside of GAFA looks to those companies for "how to do software development right" - no matter if they are right or not.
I've watched more than a few well established companies start to ape Google's hiring practices, or Amazon's churn, or Facebook's development practices just to try and attract new young developers.