> FB at one point had a very badass engineering culture
Perpetually kneecapped by one of the worst management cultures I've ever seen
I'm going there: Bosworth is the problem. He should never have got near being CTO.
Would you say those badass engineers were/are managed by Careless People?
My impression is that they had created a system where management cared very deeply about "number go up", and very little about "which number?"
The book title is a reference to The Great Gatsby: "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald