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by swiftcoder 53 days ago
> Engineers tend to be selfish and self oriented to building whatever is easiest for them to ship

You must be working with shit engineers. Every product I've ever worked on, it's the engineers holding the line on quality while the side of the house that has to care about costs steadily cuts
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tsunamifury 53 days ago
classic engineering delusion -- often hold the line on technical items that are irrelevant or simply not important to the consumer.

I have worked at all top three firms, and never had engineers come close to being customer oriented.

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troad 52 days ago
I enjoy your contrarianism, tsunamifury, but I'd enjoy it more (and I think you'd get more thoughtful engagement) if you weren't quite so spiky about it. (This goes for a couple of your recent posts.)
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swiftcoder 53 days ago
> I have worked at all top three firms

I've worked at 2/3, and sure, there are shit product teams all over FAANG, but you can always decide to go work on one of the ones that does proper engineering

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