Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo
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Re: Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo
#2I've taken a hard line with people who work at Facebook. If you're still there and unwilling to represent the failings your company has done to society, then I need to hear a justification before moving further in the conversation. I don't think I've ever felt this strongly about a tech company.
I know that's tough but it's a matter of ethics. And frankly, Facebook is an amazing technical institution, and I would love to work with the majority of them based on technical chops alone.
I've put my money where my mouth is on this sort of thing in the past - I passed on an Uber employee who worked on the "god mode" feature and had no opinions on it making the news or its being abused other than "I was just building the feature". It made the news for abusiveness, at least have a little remorse!
So Facebook employees, please understand, if I ever meet you in a technical interview, there will be a five minute section for a hard "liberal arts" question politely lobbed your way :)
Re: Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo
#3I've taken a hard line with people who work at Facebook. If you're still there and unwilling to represent the failings your company has done to society, then I need to hear a justification before moving further in the conversation. I don't think I've ever felt this strongly about a tech company. I know that's tough but it's a matter of ethics. And frankly, Facebook is an amazing technical institution, and I would lov…
Which company do you work for again?
Re: Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo
#4I've taken a hard line with people who work at Facebook. If you're still there and unwilling to represent the failings your company has done to society, then I need to hear a justification before moving further in the conversation. I don't think I've ever felt this strongly about a tech company. I know that's tough but it's a matter of ethics. And frankly, Facebook is an amazing technical institution, and I would lov…
> I don't think I've ever felt this strongly
I'm sure that your employer loves your personal feelings interfering with hiring talent.
Re: Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo
#5I've taken a hard line with people who work at Facebook. If you're still there and unwilling to represent the failings your company has done to society, then I need to hear a justification before moving further in the conversation. I don't think I've ever felt this strongly about a tech company. I know that's tough but it's a matter of ethics. And frankly, Facebook is an amazing technical institution, and I would lov…
Which company do you work for again?
I'm interested to know too so I can avoid it like the plague.
Re: Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo
#6I've taken a hard line with people who work at Facebook. If you're still there and unwilling to represent the failings your company has done to society, then I need to hear a justification before moving further in the conversation. I don't think I've ever felt this strongly about a tech company. I know that's tough but it's a matter of ethics. And frankly, Facebook is an amazing technical institution, and I would lov…
> I don't think I've ever felt this strongly I'm sure that your employer loves your personal feelings interfering with hiring talent.
Exactly why we have interview problems in engineering. I respect engineers for having opinions and ethics and they should lean on them, but to bar one from employment because they were doing their job is wrong, immoral, and potentially illegal.
Re: Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo
#7Here's the original article, with more direct quotes from the memo: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook...
According to it, the full version isn't going to be released because it contains privately identifiable information.
Re: Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo
#8There was a previous discussion of this yesterday based on a Buzzfeed News article about the same memo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24474343
Re: Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo
#9I've taken a hard line with people who work at Facebook. If you're still there and unwilling to represent the failings your company has done to society, then I need to hear a justification before moving further in the conversation. I don't think I've ever felt this strongly about a tech company. I know that's tough but it's a matter of ethics. And frankly, Facebook is an amazing technical institution, and I would lov…
> I don't think I've ever felt this strongly I'm sure that your employer loves your personal feelings interfering with hiring talent.
There's a great Warren Buffett quote on this:
"Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true. If you hire somebody without integrity, you really want them to be dumb and lazy."
Re: Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't think I've ever felt this strongly I'm sure that your employer loves your personal feelings interfering with hiring talent.
Exactly why we have interview problems in engineering. I respect engineers for having opinions and ethics and they should lean on them, but to bar one from employment because they were doing their job is wrong, immoral, and potentially illegal.
> because they were doing their job
Where have we heard that one before?