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by gardenhedge 1217 days ago
> I like being an IC and building what I'm told to build; I have no idea how to decide what it is we should be building and don't want to deal with customer demands.

To be honest I'm kind of surprised programmers like this work at frugal
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__derek__ 1217 days ago
Why is that? This seems like the heart of the labor-hoarding criticism of Google: hire a bunch of smart people, then tell them to churn out low-value code for the ads machine while their RSUs vest and refresh.
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gardenhedge 1216 days ago
True, guess I just had it wrong in my head. I thought this was a code monkey and a code monkey was not something good. All those devs are more successful than me though!
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