Brutal and hilarious. Good deadpan. "Without a doubt Facebook is one of the best offices I've worked in ... open office is like working in a warehouse, food is good, they have decent coffee."
The difference lies in perception. Or to put it more elegantly, if you like (or at least can tolerate) that specific flavor of Kool-Aid.
In these large companies the #1 employee is the one who crushed everyone else on their path. No strange that many high-performers are sociopaths.
I'm not defending Facebook nor attacking Shye, I just want to say that rules are pretty much the same for different games so why criticising one and accepting the other?
And on the other side we have this CANCER called Facebook, which is managed by a gang of managers that respect nothing and nobody.
And the fun part that nobody commented (I think) is that YT is another brutal violator of everything-privacy, and YT is one main tool in their toolbox.
Edit: removed semi-foul language
The cultural characterisation seems completely accurate to me.
Everybody plays multiple games of performative open plan activity, pushing other people to join their projects, all with the friendly face of 'make the world a better place' while counting their RSUs.
The means might look the same on the surface, but very different beasts under the hood.
Its like that Kris Lindahl radio ad that starts "are you sick of Kris Lindhal ads? You could change the station, but wed be playing it there too!!"
Nothing against TechLead. Just posting because it reminded me of one of my favourite quotes.
Why should I care about his opinion?
I mean from Youtuber that wants to get viewers perspective it's perfectly reasonable, but generally it looks not nice for me.
Sometimes his delivery is so deadpan that I get an odious vibe from it. But it does seem that he’s not serious and is using his previous status as a part of the humour.
For one purpose likes are useful, for other purposes they are absurd.
