The bar for remaining on the team at the 1-year mark isn’t just passable performance, it’s hell yeah! You’re excited to have them on the team in their current state, and you can’t wait to see what they do next.
Who writes this cringe-worthy crap? Or is it an American cultural thing?
This is just ultimately a commercial company churning out digital widgets so I hope they are paying "Hell Yeah!" money...
You'd rather the banal corporate beige in every other handbook? At least this reads like someone means it.
I 100% agree with the sentiment. If I had staff, it's the benchmark I'd apply (even if I did word it a touch differently).
Here, let me paste you, verbatim, an ex-colleague's LinkedIn description. This might be more up your alley.
Over 25 years’ experience employing strong business and architectural skills in orchestrating and delivering innovative solutions that provide quantifiable business value to medium and large enterprises.
I have strong technical leadership, a broad background in technology and a deep understanding of business drivers and challenges across multiple sectors which enables me to assist organisations in removing technical blockers and delivering business outcomes. Employing enterprise architecture principles, I am able to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic operational delivery to ensure life-cycle optimisation, organisational change and IT governance requirements are addressed.
That corporate drivel is insufferable and completely meaningless. I would never hire that person. But if that person described themselves as in your parent poster's example, I wouldn't believe it either.
Reading this, anyone give great advice on formulating take home projects that work really well in the AI age? I ran an interview cycle where I gave ~1 day, and tried to hold out some technical questions for a follow up design interview after they had delivered the take home. I felt like the project was very hard to define given AI lets people chew through most of what you throw in front of them very quickly. Giving a bigger project felt like it required drawing them too deeply into our domain, where I was trying to provide a slice of it that we could onboard candidates to in ~45 minutes. Given that the authors here are getting multiple weeks to do it, its hard for me to imagine an appropriate scope.
"Therefore, we’re asking everyone, including Jason and me, to refrain from using our company Basecamp or HEY to discuss societal politics at work effective immediately."
it has been a while since I read what DHH wrote but now it appears that he mostly writes against wokeism, migration, climate hysteria, how Tesla is the pinnacle of capitalism, etc. Yuck.
"When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them. This isn't hard, it isn't cruel. It's the basic logic of self-preservation."
Why do they need a Manager Playbook when they don't have Managers?
Oh wait looking at their org chart they do have managers. But only the special high level ones have real titles. The lowly ones get the work with out the title.
Who writes this cringe-worthy crap? Or is it an American cultural thing?
This is just ultimately a commercial company churning out digital widgets so I hope they are paying "Hell Yeah!" money...