111–120 of 133 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I went into Facebook's bathroom, at eye level over each urinal was posted a weekly newsletter, which talked about changes to their PHP API.
haha for some reason, i love this idea
Still going strong, though depending on the office and particular bathroom distribution seems to have problems at times.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Zuckerburg is in bed with the Chinese government, so it would make sense that he uses their tactics of controlling a large group of people.
Forgot how many facebook employees read HN Update: confirmed. Don't disgrace the dear leader.
Founder is so far from employee it's ridiculous you even comment. It's sad that most founders don't care or don't understand that sometimes they managed to hire people that actually care about the business, and could have helped make it better. When I see a founder sell his business, all I ever think is (as I'm sure most do), what a selfish asshole.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11029639 and marked it off-topic.
Since then I've spoken to other CEOs who were acquired by that company. They boast about how they were allowed to keep working on their projects and how they were important to the company and their great relationship to Larry as part of a Fortune 50 company. But then, over time, they found they weren't being given freedom anymore and they left. They just never really understood what was really happening.
> One of Facebook’s internal slogans is something like “always do what’s best for Facebook”. Is that real? Like they really have this slogan that like comes straight out of a modern interpretation of Marx's theory of alienation shoved right into their employees faces? http://i.imgur.com/oVb4J0b.png
That is also, if I recall correctly, remarkably similar to an internal slogan printed on a banner at Innitech, in Office Space . I'm not certain that I would be able to suppress a fit of the giggles any time I saw it in an actual, real-life office.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Commuting by car is much worse than commuting by bus or train (for any time greater than 45 min).
Your bus options must be a hell of a lot nicer than mine. (I haven't had the option of commuting by train since college, alas.)
In my experience, the first thing to do is to build yourself a little fortress out of binders and printouts. If it looks like you're going to get fired, pretend to be mentally handicapped so that they are afraid of a discrimination lawsuit. Then switch to whatever team has the best donuts, and spend the rest of your time at BigCo playing bullshit bingo with the pointy-haired ones.
... and spend the rest of your time at BigCo playing bullshit
bingo with the pointy-haired ones.
It would be nice to find a solution that doesn't increase the pointy-haired entropy of the world.
In my experience, there's only one rule to surviving an acquisition: find political cover immediately . Upon acquisition, you and your team are an alien entity embedded in BigCo's immune system of political networks and operating rules. They don't know what to do with you, you are a threat to established patterns, and you will lose to the experienced players . So unless you have C-suite cover and a title to match it,…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This completely describes our experience. Thank you.
On the bright side, you're in a better place now! I'm looking forward to seeing what you're doing at Hound.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your bus options must be a hell of a lot nicer than mine. (I haven't had the option of commuting by train since college, alas.)
wow, where did you live where getting to microsoft via 520 took 1.5 hours? 1 hour i believe as an occasional max. maybe across puget sound?