In reality, "objective" could be a fairly subjective target that depends on your relationship with your manager in a company with bad culture. Just spend 10 minutes browsing on Blind.
> Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service. Advertising aims to present a product or service in terms of utility, advantages and qualities of interest to consumers.
Nobody ever said that advertising must involve a third party.
> What happens when a gang of amateur photographers, turned into amateur developers, joined by a bunch of back-end developers who develop libraries for developers, decide to work without method nor structure on an industry software for end-users, which core competency (colorimetry and psychophysics) lies somewhere between a college degree in photography and a master’s degree in applied sciences, while promising to deliver 2 releases each year without project management ? All that, of course, in a project where the founders and the first generation of developers moved on and fled ?
A number of open source design software comes to mind, but I am too scared to name them.
Well, you see, while the original comment says they could play at 5x speed, it does not say it plays at that speed well or play it beautifully. Any teacher or any student who learned piano for a while will tell you that this matters a lot, especially for classical music -- being able to accurately play at an even tempo with the correct dynamics and articulation is hard and is what differentiates a beginner/intermediate player from an advanced one. In fact, one mistake many students make is playing a piece too fast when they are not ready, and teachers really want students to practice very slowly.
My point is -- being able to zip a jacket is all about those subtle actions, and could actually be harder than "just" playing piano fast.
My understanding is that R&D in the US is a very small part of the business for these China-based companies, both in terms of headcounts and org chart. TikTok hires many people in the US, but that's nowhere near the number in the Beijing office, not to mention that all decisions come from China. You can find lots of articles that talk about midnight meetings for folks in US. And there is a good reason for that -- you can hire a few engineers in China for the same price of hiring 1 engineer in the Bay Area.