Funny story. Up until this year, Wirecutter staff couldn't join NYT all hands meetings. Someone at the NYT had to stream their Google Meet video of the meeting to a Zoom that we could watch. It was often compressed to the point where we couldn't make out what was on screen.
We were told it was "being worked on" for five years.
We didn't have access to any shared documents automatically, we had to request each one individually on a per person basis.
It also took five years to uh <checks notes> get on the nytimes dot com frontpage. Something that should have been a day one priority, and would have had five years of enormous traffic gains.
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I think about this a lot, so apologies for a bit of a story time. I came on at Wirecutter super early, and stayed longer than most (when I left I was the longest serving full timer, or there abouts)
I never would have been hired at post-acquisition WC. My background was too wobbly, I'd never done anything big name, just some guy who knew a bit about cameras and had spent some time in the blog mines.
I got the gig because I knew someone who knew someone, and Brian and the WC team invested in me. They trained me on how to think, how to write, and how to approach everything with a critical eye (what they didn't train me on was managing, but that's a different story)
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