[HN Gopher] Waymo's Hiring Binge
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Waymo's Hiring Binge
Author : muzz
Score : 32 points
Date : 2020-02-25 21:39 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| aresant wrote:
| Instructive the degree to which good HR, recruiting, and
| operational onboarding can create giant moats for these larger
| tech cos.
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| Hiring 700 "mostly engineer" employees in a year!
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| I pride myself as an "operator" and have worked in businesses
| that have scaled quickly but it is unimaginable how one doubles
| the highly compensated / hard to find employee count in a year at
| that scale.
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| In an economy where excess labor of that quality is non-existent.
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| That's an average of almost 3 people a work day showing up,
| needing devtools opened, trying to integrate into the org, etc.
| mdszy wrote:
| >Waymonauts
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| Weird-ass names for employees of a company is one of the weirdest
| "WE HAVE TO TRY HARD TO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL LIKE A PART OF THE
| CULTURE" things ever, honestly.
| jcims wrote:
| Who cares. People like to be a part of a team. I was a noogler
| for a little while. The little propeller cap is on a shelf a
| few feet behind me as i type this. I was in my 40's at the time
| but it was the first time i was part of a tribe at work and it
| felt kind of good (despite being old and 'kind of weird'
| relative to the rest).
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| I quit before i graduated so i guess it wasn't _that_ special,
| but i think it 's overall a positive thing (if managed well).
| [deleted]
| CydeWeys wrote:
| Or it's just convenient to have a shorthand for people working
| at a particular place, and as long as you're doing that, may as
| well have fun with it. The obvious "Waymoers" doesn't exactly
| work anyway.
| mdszy wrote:
| "Waymo employee" is too hard to say?
| Quarrelsome wrote:
| not as fun to say. Doesn't roll off the tongue.
| DevKoala wrote:
| This is your career, so do with it as you like.
| Nevertheless, understand that there are people who hate
| the pet titles that "fun" investors like to give to their
| employees. Enjoy it "Waimonauts", lol.
| warent wrote:
| It seems likely that the decision is made with that in
| mind to intentionally filter out people who would be put
| off by it.
| dvtrn wrote:
| So it's working?
| zelly wrote:
| Credit Karma also apparently calls its employees "Karmanauts".
| Heavy duty cringe.
| tudelo wrote:
| also, noogler and n00b are some fun ones
| warent wrote:
| Noogler is supposed to be silly/goofy, it's not cringe at
| all if it's self aware
|
| Disclaimer: used to be a noogler. I'm not mad at all!!1!
| hornbaker wrote:
| Waymofos would be better.
| therein wrote:
| Works for any startup with the -mo suffix too.
|
| Since Waymo skipped on that demonym, big opportunity for
| Venmofos.
| erhserhdfd wrote:
| Anyone have a copy of this not behind a paywall?
| kamikaz1k wrote:
| Outline says there isn't much...
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| https://outline.com/3MyKkw
| netinstructions wrote:
| because it's just grabbing the first three paragraphs that
| anyone can see before the paywall...
| [deleted]
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