“The glassdoor information (82k for iOS engineer?) implies sub-par salary for sure, but it’s a single entry.”
— Square (company): Is Square an unpleasant place to work? - Quora
“The work culture is beyond your standard “work long hours startup”, Square wants your soul. After voicing my concerns to my manager that the amount I was expected to work was jeopardizing my overall happiness and time spent with my spouse, I was told in no uncertain terms that I could either choose to spend more time on my relationship or Square. There was no middle ground. As you can probably guess, I chose the former. I expect that relationship to last much much longer than Square will be around for.
Jack is a curious CEO, though with little experience running a company. I mean, the guy got kicked out of Twitter. He also works two full time jobs, both as CEO of Square and whatever he does at Twitter nowadays. The company culture comes from top down. When your CEO works two full time jobs, lives within a 4 block radius of both of them, doesn’t invest a lot of time in friends, family, or other non-work related relationships, everyone that gets hired below that is expected to do the same. My own social life started to dwindle rapidly in my time there and almost everyone else I spoke to experienced the same.
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— Square (company): Is Square an unpleasant place to work? - Quora
“I work at Square, and I must say it’s like Apple. As an engineer, life is not good. As an ‘editor’ (product manager) life is good. Get those engineers to write out some more code.”
— Square (company): Is Square an unpleasant place to work? - Quora
“Jack is great at speaking in a compelling way that makes everyone forget what the original question was in the first place.”
— Square (company): Is Square an unpleasant place to work? - Quora
“In recent months, the number of young people watching children’s programmes on the BBC’s main terrestrial channels has occasionally dropped as low as 1,000.”
Yes, but can it do precipitation? (via Cryoscope: A Touch-based Weather Communicating Device by Robb Godshaw — Kickstarter)
one word plastics (by 337eel)
Counter (by waferbaby)
“There are other signals as well. On Stellar.io, a favorites aggregator that tracks what people are linking on Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo and Flickr, the latter’s links fail to show up even daily in my stream.”
“Today, it all seems too late. The iPhone is the most popular camera on Flickr, but the feeling isn’t mutual. Flickr isn’t even among the top 50 free photography apps in iTunes. It’s just below an Instagram clone in 64th place. By way of comparison, an app that adds cats with laser eyes to your photos is 23rd.”
““By the time we were looking at Flickr, Yahoo was getting the shit kicked out of it by Google. The race was on to find other areas of search where we could build a commanding lead,” says one high ranking Yahoo executive familiar with the deal.
Flickr offered a way to do that. Because Flickr photos were tagged and labeled and categorized so efficiently by users, they were highly searchable.
“That is the reason we bought Flickr—not the community. We didn’t give a shit about that. The theory behind buying Flickr was not to increase social connections, it was to monetize the image index. It was totally not about social communities or social networking. It was certainly nothing to do with the users.”
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“while selling out in most other fields of creative endeavor is frowned upon, it’s a given on the Web.
Maybe it shouldn’t be.
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