He mentioned remote work as a part of the bigger issue of WLB. I’m pretty sure in Meta the expectation is way higher in terms of effort and level of performance
> The obvious similarities are that, now as then, a U.S. president faces the threat of impeachment against the backdrop of a strong economy and surging stock market. Even “Friends” is still popular today, just as it was then.
What? I guess "Friends" mention was intended as a joke here, but it surely does not look funny considering previous sentence.
They can write such articles every year:
- stocks are surging and there are wildfires in California, just like 20 years ago
- market is down today and Schwarzenegger is making new Terminator, just like 30 years ago
The example which author provides does not strike me as a great illustration for this point though.
> “Hey, I think we should experiment with Kotlin. It has lots of traction, Google officially supports it on Android and seems might help us write better code. Here is a PR showing how it’ll fit into our project.”
> “Umm, engineers will need to learn a new language. We have other priorities right now. Let’s consider it later.”
Without knowing too much of details, this looks like it can be a very valid point against introducing new language or technology when you truly have higher priorities and current choice of languages is good enough.
I think you should've mentioned this in your blog post, especially if you're comparing the money you've made from equity to new college grad salary at Facebook