Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada

Post by ClumsyPilot » Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 2:13 PM UTC

michaelt wrote: post #346

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No matter which way you try and slice it, there's always a human at the end of the decision. A human made the policies, a human made the layoff decision, a human decides to enforce policy.

Corporations often engage in a sort of 'responsibility laundering' Andrew in HR just does what the policy says, it's unfortunate but rules are rules, and the policy doesn't say this is any exception. Barbra the CEO who set the policy would have made an exception if it had been brought to her attention, but it wasn't. The policy was set serving the interests of the shareholders. Charles the shareholder is just an aver…

Post by mab122 » Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 2:21 PM UTC

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> you sell the majority of your earthly possessions Not only those. You give up being able to easily meet your family, friends, ... your favorite spot for hanging out is gone and you are in a completely different society, with other ways how things are done. And then in this case with just two days in you are probably still in some temporary housing. For staying you need to find a new job, quickly and a new apartment…

> with other ways how things are done. When I immigrated to Canada, online ordering was not as ubiquitous as it is now. I needed to ask someone in the elevator where to buy a laundry basket. I had no idea . Come to think of, how on earth would you know? They do not give you a "handbook to Canadian living" when you land on an IM-1 visa. Bookkeeper. Lawyer. Handyman. Figure all that out, again, as if those weren't hard…

Post by ranger_danger » Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 2:22 PM UTC

Sakos wrote: post #352

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Even in technical discussions, you can observe arrogance and dismissal by commenters who are unacceptably underqualified in the subjects being discussed. This place has become a joke nowadays.

> This place has become a joke nowadays. I wouldn't go that far. The signal to noise ratio is worse than it used to be, but there's still nothing else like HN and there are still a lot of interesting technical conversations to observe or to be had. I continue to learn more here than anywhere else. I'll cope with putting in a bit more effort mentally filtering out the unproductive conversations.

Post by BjoernKW » Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 2:28 PM UTC

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That's only true if you're working entirely or mostly synchronously, which might be an indicator of inherent anti-patterns in your work culture and processes, e.g., lots of meetings instead of written documentation.

I guess you don’t have any junior engineers?

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 2:29 PM UTC

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z9znz wrote: post #243

These scenarios don't just apply to being laid off. Another scenario which happens is that company ownership or control changes, and some key promises which were made to prospective employees get broken. I relocated to a big unpleasant city for a job early in my career, and the big promise from the hiring folks (all good people) was that "we hire at a low rate, but we give big raises fast". Their prime example was an…

I empathize with your story about being promised one thing and then not getting it.. But I think it's important to acknowledge that in most industries, you get a 2-5% raise maybe once a year, sometimes adjusted for cost of living if your employer is particularly good. Getting an 8% raise after 6 months is actually pretty good, relative to the rest of the working world, even though it's not what you were promised (so…