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swodinsky tomgara TimothyBuckSF cwarzel Maybe? Let me put it this way... when I'm being sold ad tech from a vendor there are 2 types of calls, the ones that open with an engineer on them that usually have a straightforward product that at least does what it says on the tin (rare) ...Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky tomgara TimothyBuckSF cwarzel Or the ones where there isn't & I schedule a follow up call with an engineer, and it's a preening dude egotist who thinks he's god's gift and I ask a few basic questions and because he thinks he's the smartest guy in the room he accidentally lets slip that the product is nonsensePermalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky tomgara TimothyBuckSF cwarzel And in previous companies I'd then have to burn hours to stop the company from doing an end run executive to executive behind my back. Because the people who make decisions often don't know how to code either.Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky tomgara TimothyBuckSF cwarzel I can't tell you how many times an engineer on the phone basically just assumed no one knew what he was talking about, threw technical terms around to try to intimidate and be condescending and showed his company's entire ass.Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky tomgara TimothyBuckSF cwarzel My favorite trick as a consultant was to sit in ad tech pitches from engineers to what they thought was a room of sales people that had no technical knowledge so they could talk over their heads and find out just how little their products actually did & then hear their redic feePermalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky tomgara TimothyBuckSF cwarzel The answer to why tech companies don't put their engineers on the front line of press convos is 1. The problems are always way worse than you think and in trying to explain they'll accidentally show entirely different problems ...Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky tomgara TimothyBuckSF cwarzel 2. The type of engineers these companies often hire are often total egotistical assholes who shouldn't be allowed to talk to anyone. This is especially true in ad tech where they hire people in the basis of where they graduated to put a number in a fundraising pitch deck...Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky tomgara TimothyBuckSF cwarzel Let me tell you the industry's biggest secret: Stanford CS degrees don't teach you to write good Javascript. And that's the real issue: they tell you to learn to code, because they don't want you to know their engineers need to learn to code.On twitter.com
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