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Over the course of my career in Big Tech, I’ve been lucky to work at several successful, fast-growing companies. At Meta and Airbnb, I helped scale research and design teams from 2012 to 2022, ultimately becoming Head of Design Studio at Airbnb.I loved building teams of talented people, but it…

When Steve Huynh was a principal engineer at Amazon, meetings began with a “study hall.”Amazon had a “reading culture” even among engineers, Huynh recently told the Pragmatic Engineer podcast, speaking of his time at the tech giant. Employees frequently drafted six-page memos, he said, which they shared with the company…

A new study suggests that Uber pulled off quite a feat — raising fares, lowering driver pay, and increasing profits — with a subtle change in pricing.The analysis, which is based on a trove of data from a single driver, offers some insight into a strategy that the researchers say…