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Startup types = hobbits Web3 types = dwarves Old SV/semiconductors = Goblins Bitcoiners = Orcs Brand-name programmers = wizards Influencers = gollums Politicians = men
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It’s weird when arbitrary grade levels like ‘L4’ become commonly understood lingo or meanings of terms like ‘director’ become kinda standardized so ‘this is a director level position’ has a clear meaning. Like the GS schedule talk in DC. Mark of advanced bureaucratic capture.
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The utilitification of FAANG is proceeding on schedule. Nobody ever talks about how the elves are the bureaucrats of middle earth.
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I never stood a chance running this kind of gauntlet. I dumb-lucked my way through one test-prep thing at 18 and realized I didn’t stand a chance if ever getting lucky that way again, and have been crawling through the nakatomi spaces of the tech economy ever since.
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I’m a senior director level shitposter on here but I have been assured I’m really like VP level despite having less than 50k followers
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This gamified “L4/L7” jargon has never not sounded goofy to me More like rings to a spiderweb career trap, but the salaries compensate more than enough for the commoditization trap Welcome to [M]AANG careers “where everything is made up & the points don’t matter”
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