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How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

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Re: How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

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"Successful candidates should clearly demonstrate that their priorities are company, team, and self — in that order"...right there you are creating a selection bias for exactly the kind of people you claim not to want. No-fucking-body in his right mind orders things that way. You are filtering for liars who know which lies to tell.

I consider myself very not into office politics and I'm confident a would fail massively to answer most of the proposed interview questions

Re: How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

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post #2

"Successful candidates should clearly demonstrate that their priorities are company, team, and self — in that order"...right there you are creating a selection bias for exactly the kind of people you claim not to want. No-fucking-body in his right mind orders things that way. You are filtering for liars who know which lies to tell. I consider myself very not into office politics and I'm confident a would fail massive…

Indeed. Where's the company that orders it employees, shareholders, management? Doesn't exist!

Re: How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

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"Successful candidates should clearly demonstrate that their priorities are company, team, and self — in that order"...right there you are creating a selection bias for exactly the kind of people you claim not to want. No-fucking-body in his right mind orders things that way. You are filtering for liars who know which lies to tell. I consider myself very not into office politics and I'm confident a would fail massive…

> No-fucking-body in his right mind orders things that way

Except, for example, the ACM Software Engineer's code of ethics where this is the explicitly stated order.

[1] http://www.acm.org/about/se-code

Re: How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

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post #2

"Successful candidates should clearly demonstrate that their priorities are company, team, and self — in that order"...right there you are creating a selection bias for exactly the kind of people you claim not to want. No-fucking-body in his right mind orders things that way. You are filtering for liars who know which lies to tell. I consider myself very not into office politics and I'm confident a would fail massive…

Indeed. Where's the company that orders it employees, shareholders, management? Doesn't exist!

Technically, Costco.

(Although it's "employees, customers, management, shareholders").

EDIT: Disclaimer: have friends who work at costco, have a membership, own some stock, etc.

Re: How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

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"At Facebook, moving into management is not a promotion. It’s a lateral move, a parallel track. "

This is nice in theory. But when your "peers" with Manager in their title have access to more information and more decision-making power, it is not in fact a parallel track. Just saying people are equal doesn't make it so, and it doesn't change the underlying organizational structures.

Re: How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

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"Successful candidates should clearly demonstrate that their priorities are company, team, and self — in that order"...right there you are creating a selection bias for exactly the kind of people you claim not to want. No-fucking-body in his right mind orders things that way. You are filtering for liars who know which lies to tell. I consider myself very not into office politics and I'm confident a would fail massive…

We're not talking about life and limb stuff. Your professional responsibility should be in that order. You're being paid after all.

Re: How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

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post #2

"Successful candidates should clearly demonstrate that their priorities are company, team, and self — in that order"...right there you are creating a selection bias for exactly the kind of people you claim not to want. No-fucking-body in his right mind orders things that way. You are filtering for liars who know which lies to tell. I consider myself very not into office politics and I'm confident a would fail massive…

> No-fucking-body in his right mind orders things that way Except, for example, the ACM Software Engineer's code of ethics where this is the explicitly stated order. [1] http://www.acm.org/about/se-code

> in his right mind

Which is another way to say that people who comes up with these things aren't in their right minds.

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