top | item 47125240 (no title) some_random | 8 days ago That may have been how Google did it back in the day, but in the modern McKinsey approved enterprise noticing that you can pay someone in the UK, or Croatia, or India a fraction of what you have to pay an American is impossible to miss. discuss order hn newest lokar|8 days ago Yeah, that’s part of why I left.In the old days that approach would have obviously worked poorly (it was tried, and it went poorly).IMO, as the company grew various issues inevitably reduced Eng effectiveness to the point where now outsourcing is no worse.Now even if you could hire the best from around the world and get them all to MTV, it would not really matter.
lokar|8 days ago Yeah, that’s part of why I left.In the old days that approach would have obviously worked poorly (it was tried, and it went poorly).IMO, as the company grew various issues inevitably reduced Eng effectiveness to the point where now outsourcing is no worse.Now even if you could hire the best from around the world and get them all to MTV, it would not really matter.
lokar|8 days ago
In the old days that approach would have obviously worked poorly (it was tried, and it went poorly).
IMO, as the company grew various issues inevitably reduced Eng effectiveness to the point where now outsourcing is no worse.
Now even if you could hire the best from around the world and get them all to MTV, it would not really matter.