The points you highlight are very valid, but you cannot just say it had nothing to do with remote work.
>Long after Wall Street ordered its bankers back to the office, the California-based lender’s chief executive, Greg Becker, at times worked from Hawaii, president Mike Descheneaux decamped to Florida, chief risk officer Laura Izurieta was based in a suburb of Washington and general counsel Mike Zuckert worked mostly from New York, according to several people close to the bank.
I have noticed quite often that a lot of things to fall through the cracks irrespective of how many meetings you have on zoom. A lot of catch up happens offline in informal conversations. This might be mitigated on an IC level mostly given that a good team might have a well groomed backlog being fed to them. But at a leadership/design level things are still more informal and might take a few years to get to an efficient level. So dismissing that remote work could have led to a gap is probably being very narrow.
The way I read this was the leadership did not handle remote work well and feedback did not flow bidirectionally well across multiple levels. When in person sometimes luck/chance just happens and might be enough to mitigate huge issues.
edit: from the downvotes looks like remote work is an untouchable topic and has nothing wrong with it. /s
>Heck you could even say the Amazon Whole Foods Acquisition was a loser -- they haven't leveraged the store network like Walmart has.
As someone who was a regular at Whole Foods even before the Amazon acquisition, from my viewpoint, it has been a win-win.
1. The online shopping experience has been amazing from the Amazon site/app. Target comes close.
1.a. The free delivery for Prime members was an awesome perk while it lasted and definitely made me buy from WF more than the alternatives I have.
2. I get 5% from the Prime card, I actually am incentivized to shop more at WF.
3. Amazon wise I can safely pick up my packages from the nearest store.
I understand it is subjective. But I use a forked version of https://github.com/puckel/docker-airflow on our managed K8s cluster and it points to a cloud managed Postgres. It has worked pretty well for over 3 years with no-one actually managing it from an infra POV. YMMV. This is driving a product whose ARR is well in the 100s of Millions.
If you have simple needs that are more or less set, I agree Airflow is overkill and a simple Jenkins instance is all you need.
Definitely interesting to look at the Pay Gap charts. But it might be interesting to see what the pay gap is after looking at hourly wage.
I often hear this argument that men work longer hours. Given how much data they have presented, will definitely be worth looking at that dimension too.
Edit: In S/W that might not matter at all, but some business functions hours might matter. More data the merrier.
Absolutely spot on! Glad to see I am not the only one pondering about it.
It has gotten so bad that I try to log out or use incognito to find new stuff.
Tiktok on the other hand is amazing at surfacing stuff that I am actually find interesting.
Personally I think YouTube is only showing me what it knows for sure I am interested in vs TikTok actually trying to explore and exploit what I might be interested in.
I understand how the perusing the media gives this biased feeling, just feels like Tesla mentions make for a more engaged article.
I ordered a MYLR without ever sitting in one due to how neat my friend's Model 3 was. After driving it for the first time, I doubt if I will buy another car. Tesla just makes amazing cars period. Much better than the 3 series I had before as a comparison.
No not a dumb question at all. Hard to give an exhaustive list. One example is say you are a Facebook/Insta influencer who is promoting a link to a product. You might have an incentive to inflate the engagement rate with that link. Just engagement will be likes/clicks on the post/link. By tracking conversions you can try to mitigate this type of behavior to an extent.
Click fraud is very real, but the big players ploughing money into digital ad spend are not idiots. There is a huge shift towards conversion/action driven advertising. Advertisers can see how much of an effect a particular ad channel had on the final conversion e.g purchase of a shoe/add to cart. Just talking about click/ad fraud without talking about counter measures/best practices is just click-baity usually.