Random GeekJob description includes this, regarding desired values:
> “You move fast, act like an owner, and thrive in ambiguity.”
How do they pack so many red flags into one sentence? Must be some new toxic compression algorithm.
Translation for lay(ish) people
“Move fast” : management decisions are absolute P0 and based on some billionaire’s last tweet. Everything else goes in the backlog. Especially error reports.
“Act like an owner” : be ready to take the fall when the whole thing falls apart (but actually fixing stuff is for a mythical backlog sprint)
“Thrive in ambiguity” : everything is P0. You get to figure out which are important. Hint: probably not the fixes.
Thinking on it more, for people and potential applicants who *do* know, “You move fast, act like an owner, and thrive in ambiguity" is almost Darmok levels of memetic density. It's exactly the sort of sentence that I would include to warn people away if I was a hiring manager.
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Glyph@randomgeek it made me laugh out loud that "absolute P0" and "backlog sprint" feel like "layperson" things to say, to you 🤣
(for actual laypeople, although this is not *that* hard to guess from context: PX where X is an integer from 0-9 is common tech industry slang for "priority", P0 is typically the "immediate potentially-business-ending emergency" ticket classification)
as I was just lamenting tech culture's decay, thank you for bringing me a moment of joy with some shared cultural context
@glyph oh no doubt. Typing as I was thinking, right before food. Then forgot about the whole thing until after food.
Now I’ve committed to the bit I guess.
Jonas Platte@randomgeek @glyph Reminds me of https://marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/ which somebody posted here recently.
Óscar Morales Vivó@randomgeek when I hear “thriving on ambiguity” from management I hear “could you do our job in addition to yours” among other things.
Andrew@randomgeek “act like an owner” shows up where I work… but also it’s an employee owned company so I kinda *am* an owner?
@cinebox okay but do they mean it in the original Amazon "cry at your desk while you push code commits" sense or some funky new age "take shared responsibility for the quality of the work you create" sense?
@randomgeek the latter
