'Failing up' is one of those well-known-to-insiders Silicon Valley concepts. Past a certain point in your career trajectory (not that I've experienced it), you reach escape velocity, and the gravitational rules of accountability no longer apply.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/technology/sexual-harassment-google.html …
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Completely screw up a product or business due to your own demonstrable mediocrity, and despite your illustrious pedigree? Up you go.... Commit egregious acts of sexual harassment in a company that claims to care about it. Here's your unvested stock on the way out...
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There's a certain class of Silicon Valley denizen (and I could mention a few from Facebook) who are at least somewhat incompetent. But there they flit, impervious to the laws of career physics, upwards from one failure to another, until they land in some professional Valhalla....
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Why does this happen? Whatever next group they join doesn’t actually know how bad they are?
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I really don't know, since I've only brushed up against this stratum. Is everyone in on the scam? Does the hiring party just engage in rank pseudo-nepotism? Or is success just largely unmeasurable, and some narrative gets written that excludes accountability?
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Having been somewhat involved in hiring loops--FB, startups, etc.--it seems getting honest and representative backchannel feedback on people is hard. Part of that might be that most people are probably in one of three groups: incompetent, OK, and very good (but abrasive).
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The incompetent but glib (and who fit a certain profile) can talk their way out of it. The OK stay on a median track. And then the actually effective usually really pleased or pissed off various sets of people. Collecting the data that permits triage is hard.
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