Ugh.. I personally hate these lists. Absolutely no value added, nobody is going to remember these, they're gonna learn them the hard way and most importantly, if they don't work directly with the timekeeping infrastructure, probably never. And if they do work on the timekeeping infra, they likely know all of this.
Sure, you might run into some quirk at some point in your career but they will end up being just another weird war story.
I worked directly with NTP. The nitty-gritty details and the leap second smears and all of that, for an absolutely huge network and I find this list patronizing, smug and worthless. It's some sort of intellectual masturbation or just another instance of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32335165.
And why should the employee help with that? And why at that point? There's a lot of opportunities for feedback during employment. If you're banking on exit interviews, you've already lost and you're doing it fundamentally wrong.
> All feedback is anonymous, rolled up with non-exit feedback, and delivered to managers/leads periodically so it can't be easily linked back
Oh sweet summer child.. No feedback is anonymous, ever. It can be 'confidential', which means that HR can disclose it at their discretion or as appropriate.
As a manager, if you get value from the exit interview, with all due respect, you're doing it wrong. All the feedback which could be part of the exit interview should never be a surprise or an added value after the fact.
> Startups work because you have skin in the game, when you build something people want, you get to reap rewards proportional to it.
Eh... not really. Especially not for the rank-and-file employees. Most don't get proportional rewards even if the company exits successfully. Unless you're a founder or one of the early employees, for the high percentile of successful startups, rewards are proportional with what you'd have gotten at FAANG companies during the same time.
Not to diminish your experience, but I think the idea there was that you get to work on something 'risky' but regardless of its success you'll still get your paycheck, health insurance benefits. And if it goes belly up, you can just do a lateral move to Azure or whatever instead of worrying about the very existence of the company.
Sure, you might run into some quirk at some point in your career but they will end up being just another weird war story.
I worked directly with NTP. The nitty-gritty details and the leap second smears and all of that, for an absolutely huge network and I find this list patronizing, smug and worthless. It's some sort of intellectual masturbation or just another instance of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32335165.