Great company, pestered by parrot-like middle managers
Great company, pestered by parrot-like middle managers
Great leadership. Best CEO ever (perhaps one of the only CEOs in the tech world who understands AI at full depth). Tech stack choices have been great, and the product works in the market. There was autonomy and a healthy teamwork culture. The teamwork part is still there, but a lot of the company works top-down.
Everything was great until a year ago. Lately, there are these mid-level managers who have pestered the system. Now, me and my team just do the work and get paid. These mid-level managers can be replaced by parrots (no AI needed). They just repeat the leadership messages and keep themselves unavailable with a bureaucratic way of delegation. Overall, the innovation engine has died out. Also, internal productivity is declining due to rampant hiring.
Follow Mr. Elon and uplift loyal engineers (not old heads from Google).
My oldhead director from Google, even after ChatGPT, said: "We will not invest in ML/AI as it's a dead zone."
When the CEO said LLMs will be incorporated, his parroting changed.
Please hire people with passion and credibility instead of parrots.
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United StatesNovember 19, 2025Extremely unprofessional interviewer who worked on his own stuff the entire interview and deliberately didn't reveal the second part of the question. Attitude is bad and impatient. If you don't want to interview, just don't accept the interview. I'd
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 18, 2025The first part was the Technical Screen without OA. It was a standard graph problem, maybe like a Leetcode Medium. It was an hour total, and I had about 10 minutes at the end to ask my interviewers some questions.
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