Cartesian Skepticism

In the past couple of months, I worked with my friends to build a web app that serves the trending creator community.

I spent several hours reading and researching about YC’s application and interview processes. This is a summary.

之前在微软工作十多年的NLY，后称宁总，从国内回访西雅图，组织了一次线下交流会，分享他在国内三年的工作和创业经验。新年假期最后一天的3点~8点，安排在Bellevue的抖音办公室见面，到场约30人。活动前半场基本是宁总分享，后半场Q&A和大家相互分享。

Thoughts from perspective of individual contributors: This is an old story. Wall St. banks always have such layoff practice. Every year, same day, same time, employees stay at home and wait a call of their future fate. Sometimes it’s based off your own problems, bad performance. Sometimes, it’s merely based on a shift of company strategy. When layoff happens, the least essential business functions get cut first. Commonly speaking, this might be the order: Human Resources, Marketing, Operations, Product Management & Design, Data Science and Analytics, Software Engineering, Sales.