An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely in-person culture, few scheduled meetings, aggressive recruiting, heavy internal product testing, more
On recruiting and culture — Nivi: You're listening to the Naval Podcast. X: Jim O'Shaughnessy / @jposhaughnessy : “When I asked co-founder Sualeh Asif what he's most concerned about when it comes to...
An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely in-person culture, few scheduled meetings, aggressive recruiting, heavy internal product testing, more
Sixty days with the AI coding decacorn — Editor's note: This is the first installment in a series of Company Dispatches …
Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded
Based on The Pragmatic Engineer Survey: 3,000 respondents, mostly experienced devs. — Note how other vibe-coding tools are also not popular with this group: [image] Gergely Orosz / @gergely.pragmati...
London-based Metaview, which builds AI tools to automate hiring, like via interview notetaking and job description generation, raised a $35M Series B led by GV
Recruiting, which is heavy on admin, is ripe for disruption when it comes to developing AI tools.
Ten current and former Samsung semiconductor engineers say many are leaving for SK Hynix and other rivals due to long hours, heavy workloads, and lower bonuses
Scarred by long hours, low pay, and a hostile work culture, many chip workers are leaving for competitors, including American companies.
Sources paint a bleak picture for startup founders in China; IT Juzi report: only 1,202 startups were founded in the country in 2023 compared to 51,302 in 2018
Venture capital finance has dried up amid political and economic pressures, prompting a dramatic fall in new company formation X: @carnage4life , @tonytassell , @michaelxpettis , @eleanorolcott , @hsu...
Amid poor sales, Sony halts sales and offers refunds for its FPS game Concord, which launched as a $40 PS5 and PC title on August 23 after years of development
8yrs in game development. 2 weeks of availability. Priced at $40, this AAA title made only $30,000 on PC sales & never reached 700 users online. — And with that, Sony Playstation is refunding the ...
How the rise in the US of Japanese news aggregator SmartNews, valued at $2B in 2021, came to a halt in 2023, leading to CEO Ken Suzuki's departure in November
https://restofworld.org/... X: @restofworld : Japan's SmartNews was growing fast in the U.S. What went wrong? Once valued at $2 billion, the news app has been hit by heavy layoffs. Former employees te...
Google's AI-heavy I/O suggests AI is a sustaining innovation for Big Tech; the true fight will be between major players' centralized models and open source
Some things in tech are shocking, but not surprising — think of a CEO of a struggling company losing their job.
Sources: Amazon's stock decline over the past year has roiled its stock-heavy compensation plans, causing pay in 2023 to drop by 15%-50% below Amazon's targets
Stock-heavy compensation plan means employees to receive 15% to 50% below projected pay targets