[harryf]

Wow. There is so much stuff here on the borderline of dystopian nightmare, e.g. how he describes how http://work.facebook.com get's used as a popularity contest for decision making. It's almost exactly what David Eggers was describing in The Circle. Suddenly all those boring corporate workplaces pushing stuff in and out of an RDBMS look a lot more attractive...

[JacKTrocinskI]

I work at a place that pushes stuff in and out of an RDBMS, life is good here.

[fjp]

I just interviewed at a small startup, but one that has real customers and hasn't needed to raise VC money. Some customers them millions to develop their platform features, others pay them just to use the platform as it is.

No thrashing around for product-market fit, changing goals every week.

Everyone I talked to seemed so... calm. It was surreal. At my current startup job people seem to take a weird sort of pride in how frazzled and overwhelmed they are.

[ethbro]

If you're in debt and not making money, at least you can have the decency to appear frazzled and overwhelmed...

[masonic]

Are they hiring?

[Traubenfuchs]

Yes they are. All across the world.

Sadly, many of them already have (or plan to) do a "digital transformation". In a nutshell that means: Huge open space developer farms, firing old (expensive) engineers, forcing everything into Kubernetes, doing "sledgehammer agile (e.g. forced agile). This in turn leads to massive turnover.

[rad_gruchalski]

Data is the new gold.