I was in this story in a past life. I've been most of the engineering roles it feels. Luigi is the worst one to be stuck in.
After this job, Luigi tried to get out of the oven business but in every interview after this, "oh you've worked on ovens? Nice, we have a few oven problems to solve here. "
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This was a great read! Been a long time since I saw satire this on-point.
it's just such a perfect allegory for how practically every startup out there works
Not just startups, my dude. It's big-ass enterprise too.
also true
I was in this story in a past life. I've been most of the engineering roles it feels. Luigi is the worst one to be stuck in.
After this job, Luigi tried to get out of the oven business but in every interview after this, "oh you've worked on ovens? Nice, we have a few oven problems to solve here. "
God that hits close to home.
This reminded me of the venerable (27 years young!) halfbakery.
nice