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Comment by hamburgerwah | Hacker News Reader

They pay their engineers below and in cases half of market rates, place no organizational value on quality engineering, their CEO/head engineer is a buffoon and they have a history of screwing people with regard to equity compensation. It's not a complicated explanation at all.

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I don't think this should reasonably be pinned on engineer remuneration. If you were advertising for "top performance tuning experts", it's fair they may not get them. But every criticism regarding root issues with the site (dark patterns pushing the app, AMP pages that don't load any content, loading screens that don't load anything, pages that almost seem deliberately broken) are really not the sort of things you associate with someone who "worked hard on performance but wasn't skilled enough". I would generally expect if they doubled their rates they'd get better ad targeting and investments in a range of places that aren't "faster websites".

> their CEO/head engineer is a buffoon and they have a history of screwing people with regard to equity compensation. It's not a complicated explanation at all.

This is the first time I’ve heard something negative about Huffman. Could you elaborate?

I mean, this was pretty embarrassing. Seems like poor judgment. https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...

And rely on the “community” to moderate. For zero point zero compensation.

Bring back Ellen Pao!

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