Comment on Amanda Watson, the engineer who pioneered the AirLink and several other technologies for Oculus, was hired at Valve.

• julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  • Valve handbook (if you read between the lines)
  • Working at Valve: ‘A Fearless Adventure’ or ‘Lord of the Flies’?
  • Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

  Note: I am not saying this is bad practice. These companies try to offer you the best work environment and a very good salary. If you like working then this right for you and it will not necessarily feel like work. Also things might have changed in the last few years at Meta.

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• julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just listened to podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/…/id1568389515?i=10…

  She is definitely very passionate and obsessed about working on VR tech doing it in her freetime for month presumably years even after she left Meta.

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