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The Great Tech Wake-Up Call: VCs Discover Billions Wasted on Inefficient Teams

by asne11 on 11/28/24, 1:08 PM with 1 comments

• by techfeathers on 11/28/24, 1:51 PM

  I wonder how much of this is “lazy developers” and “quiet quitting” vs the beurocracies , processes and tangled code of big tech companies. I’m not saying they’re aren’t lazy employees, but I intentionally work at a small company because of the lower barrier to get shit done. My short experiences at big tech companies make me wonder if I would get much more then 1-2 small code changes out per month if I worked there.

  I wonder how efficient the developers at Twitter really are. I remember when George Hotz interned at Twitter to fix search, and he like downloaded the source code, diddled around with it and quit after a few months. Making changes at big tech companies is hard, and it’s a management issue as much if not more than an engineering issue.

  I’m not the guy who says all employees are equally valuable, that’s a worthless platitude and I’ve seen countless examples to the contrary, but I’m equally skeptical of claims by upper management that it would all be peaches if it wasn’t for those pesky lazy developers.