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5 years ago
And Amazon. And Uber. And Twitter. And and and…
Taking the shine off (via beta.stoopinbox.com). the Apple (and FB and Google).
It started to look a little less sexy to work at a big tech company. Not by too much. After all, they were still forking over hundreds of thousands of dollars in total compensation packages. But maybe enough to make you pause for a minute.
But all of a sudden, it started to look like maybe writing complex distributed systems was actually the easiest part of being a developer. The harder part was actually navigating through these behemoth company cultures.