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samrusyesterday at 10:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

> But my goal is to reach my company’s quarterly and anual goals - not what’s going to happen 10 years from now.

Your benefiting from the work of peopke who did worry about what will happen 10, or even 20 30 years down the line. People like you are why the rides gonna stop


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raw_anon_1111yesterday at 10:44 PM

So I should become a director or CxO of a company (because line level managers are powerless to do anything) so I can make those types of decisions?

Not that I’m a line level manager - I’m just a high level IC who is at the same position on the org chart as a line level manager

wonnageyesterday at 10:40 PM

It’s telling that OP worked at Amazon because this pretty much sums up the culture there - new grads churning through and burning out in two years while a few seniors stick around and perpetuate the cycle.

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