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acchow | karma 7694 | avg karma 2.38 · 2022-05-04 21:50:18

> 6 engineers focused on rewriting the form to input credit cards on YouTube for 3 years.

Can you explain how this gets them promos? I feel like a promo-focused culture would result in 6 engineers creating a new server-side rendering framework so that they can improve credit card input rendering speed - possibly equally useless, but much more work.

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reindeerer | karma 85 | avg karma 1.44 · 2022-05-05 01:01:11

Those rendering frameworks are being written as well, for no other reason than promo

bryanrasmussen | karma 35788 | avg karma 2.92 · 2022-05-05 01:25:43

>creating a new server-side rendering framework so that they can improve credit card input rendering speed - possibly equally useless

at the scale of Google I'm not sure I would consider that useless. But it would definitely feel useless.

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darth_aardvark | karma 205 | avg karma 3.06 · 2022-05-05 05:36:29

> result in 6 engineers creating a new server-side rendering framework so that they can improve credit card input rendering speed - possibly equally useless, but much more work.

We didn't create our own, but we did migrate our codebase to a new server-side rendering framework twice in my time there.

Also, nobody on our team ever got promoted.

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