Comparing Company Cultures with Jay
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Ever wondered how the culture of big companies like Meta, Microsoft and Amazon differ? Jay comes with a fairly unique perspective as he has now worked at all three of them. In his discussion with Pascal, he shares his views on the trade-offs that a company value like “Move Fast” brings along and how companies assign different weights to the value of making mistakes. Got feedback? Send it to us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/metatechpod), Instagram (https://instagram.com/metatechpod) and don’t forget to follow our host @passy (https://twitter.com/passy). Fancy working with us? Check out https://www.metacareers.com/. Links: Power On: The Story of Xbox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJYsA1jXf60 Timestamps: Intro 0:06 Jay Introduction 1:18 Business Engineering at Meta 2:43 Social Impact 5:35 Culture Shocks 8:24 The Value of Mistakes 14:15 Finding your Pace 16:14 Modes of Working in Different Teams 19:32 Expectations vs Reality 23:36 Workflows 30:02 Incidents 37:26 Internal Mobility 42:24 Outro 45:30 Bloopers 46:10
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