Great Weather, Terrible Colleagues
Great Weather, Terrible Colleagues
Incompetent hires and/or lazy, low-IQ, or older managers from Google, Microsoft, or Amazon mean tons to take on and drive. It's truly unique how much you can learn due to incompetent coworkers.
They used to pay a ton to get people to relocate.
The SoCal weather.
Where do we begin?
Management - Evan is an immature, average designer who got very lucky. This bred a culture of hiring more like him. Design, which reports to him, holds a lot of power. I've never seen engineering treated so poorly as it is here.
Work culture - Some really lazy, "rest n' vest" type people hired. Old rejects from Google/AMZN/MSFT fill the ranks, or people from no-name startups.
Politics - That's all that's done, all day, every day. Turf wars, fighting for things they couldn't execute on, even if they won.
Competition - IG is killing Snap. Nothing more to say.
Low quality staff - Who would relocate to LA? Either the best, who are paid outrageously (and have already left because they are actually good), or the worst, who have stayed back.
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