[jcims]

I'm curious why Zoom doesn't get more shine.

In my opinion they were tested like few other companies in history at the start of the pandemic and seem to have pulled it off. My former employer had 60,000 people with technical roles and we all went to zoom in the summer of 2020 after our existing conferencing solution completely shit the bed. I won't say there were zero issues but the number definitely rounds to zero.

Obviously there are the privacy questions, but that's orthogonal to the engineering challenge of delivering realtime voice/video to millions of people.

[ecshafer]

I think Zoom doesn't get more shine for the same reason Alibaba, Baidu, or ByteDance don't. They are large companies doing complex engineering, but they are Chinese and not western.

[sargun]

I'd say that in systems engineering, alibaba gets a lot of love. Alicloud folks have actually done a lot of impressive stuff with k8s

[throwaway744678]

Not sure I am getting your point... Zoom is a US company.

[hardware2win]

> My former employer had 60,000 people with technical roles and we all went to zoom in the summer of 2020 after our existing conferencing solution completely shit the bed

Do i understand it correctly?

60k ppl left ur job and went to zoom?

[jcims]

I could have stated that more clearly. 60k people started working from home full time and we switched completely away from our existing solution to Zoom as the primary service provider for teleconferencing.