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They hire based on skill and experience, not just a college degree.
The best tech companies tend to be like that too, unless they turn woke. If they turn woke, then it's how many "victim points" you get that determines whether you get hired. And then they fall out of the ranks of the best tech companies.
The best tech companies tend to be like that too, unless they turn woke. If they turn woke, then it's how many "victim points" you get that determines whether you get hired. And then they fall out of the ranks of the best tech companies.
It's happening all over Silicon Valley right now.
"HIgh Tech" ain't what it used to be.
richwicks says
It's happening all over Silicon Valley right now.
"HIgh Tech" ain't what it used to be.
I really miss Steve Jobs. He lived somewhat before the "woke" era, but even still, he never put up with any of this pathetic victim mentality and virtue signaling. The two stints with Jobs were the best times Apple ever had.
I regard Jobs as another PT Barnum. I never liked him. He would regularly steal work that was made by other people. He was a charlatan.
My primary complaint with Steve Jobs is that he was only a great marketer. That's all he was. He would take a standard device, call it "revolutionary", and people would believe it. Think the iPod was the first portable MP3 player? That was the MPMan from 1998. The first entirely touchscreen phone was from 1992 - the IBM Simon Personal Communicator. Think they made the first GUI interface for a computer? That was the Xerox Alto.
The iPod had the click wheel, which was novel and effective. It also had a 10GB hard drive whereas the majority of players were flash memory and could only store a handful of songs simultaneously;
iTunes Music Store is another thing that was 3rd or 4th to market. ...and the only one (up until then) to not be closed down in a few months of abject failure. If memory serves, there was one (Sony store?) that shipped for Windows (20x market share), had all of Sony's content, integrated with Sony's player, etc. It shut down after a few months and having sold less than 1 MM songs. We were wagering on how quickly Apple's store would take to sell 1 MM songs just to Mac users (no Windows version of iTunes yet). I think the answer was something like 3 days. Boom! For sure, Jobs invented something there: A music store people actually wanted to use.
So tech companies are becoming like the federal government as far as Woke and diversity quota hiring (formerly known as affirmative action). I wonder if that is why it seems like the last 7 years that there really hasn't been anything extraordinary coming out of tech companies and productivity has lagged.
Do you have any idea how much 10GB is? That's enough to store over 1000 hours of music on it. If you listened to music 8 hours a day for 4 months, it would repeat at the start of the 5th month. ... It's fine to create this stuff, but there's no practical application for it.
The reason that iTunes is successful, is you couldn't play an MP3 on the system without going through some major pain.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/spacex-fires-employees-involved-letter-rebuking-musk-nyt-2022-06-17/
SpaceX fired at least five employees after it found they had drafted and circulated a letter criticizing founder Elon Musk and urging executives to make the firm's culture more inclusive.
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell sent an email saying the company had investigated and "terminated a number of employees involved" with the letter, the New York Times said.
The newspaper said Shotwell's email said employees involved with circulating the letter had been fired for making other staff feel "uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied, and/or angry because the letter pressured them to sign onto something that did not reflect their views".
Shotwell, who leads much of the company’s day-to-day business, has said she will enforce SpaceX’s “zero tolerance” standards against employee harassment.
Finally lefties get what they deserve.