Comment by iLoveOncall

3 years ago

My company, a FAANG, went from having all our documentation in a wiki that is searchable by anyone, to heavily using Quip (some sort of Google Docs).

Engineers resisted for a while because it's obviously awful for documentation. You can't even search it AT ALL. But since all the non-technical staff had an easier life editing Quip than editing the Wiki it's now the defacto solution for all.

This is going to be doom of engineering at this company. Over the years I have found countless things on random wikis from random teams that helped me achieve my own solution. Quip destroyed that.

Discord is the same.