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What I Hate About Working At Facebook
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#73Satire is well and good, but i can't grok #9. Interviews in a hot tub? So... even for the women? Or is it used preferentially for high pressure engineers only (whom of course are all men)? It may be just me, but I can't see the HR department in any state being okay with that. And if it's not for interviews... what's it for?
Are women allergic to hot tubs or something? I wasn't aware there was anything particularly masculine about a hot tub.
Do you seriously not understand how a hot tub could be inappropriate as part of a job interview?
Not as bad as a casting couch or a swimsuit competition, but still bad. Obviously, indisputably bad. I just hope that part of the article was not inspired by truth.
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#74Real reasons why working at Facebook isn't that attractive in my opinion: 1. Giant php codebase. 2. All the excitement is gone post-IPO, they've reached an inflection point and growth is slowing down. 3. Mark Zuckerburg doesn't have great social skills/intelligence. Which wouldn't be a problem, except that he runs a giant social network. 4. The corporate mission of making the world more open and connected just doesn'…
My favorite thing about Google is that I haven't seen a single "Keep calm and carry on" poster. Oh, except for one making fun of said poster.
Sad to say I know where one is non ironically posted.
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#75Satire is well and good, but i can't grok #9. Interviews in a hot tub? So... even for the women? Or is it used preferentially for high pressure engineers only (whom of course are all men)? It may be just me, but I can't see the HR department in any state being okay with that. And if it's not for interviews... what's it for?
Maybe it was added later, but the article has a link to a photo album of a "hot tub" in the Seattle office. There's no water in it, people are just using it to hang out.
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#76Satire is well and good, but i can't grok #9. Interviews in a hot tub? So... even for the women? Or is it used preferentially for high pressure engineers only (whom of course are all men)? It may be just me, but I can't see the HR department in any state being okay with that. And if it's not for interviews... what's it for?
Are women allergic to hot tubs or something? I wasn't aware there was anything particularly masculine about a hot tub.
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#77A lot of this is believable (i.e. can be taken for real, not satire) if you don't read into each point, because a lot of it is quite different from how Google does things: 1. At Google, code has to be designed, written, tested, and reviewed. You can't just start writing and shipping stuff, partly because there's so much infrastructure, and partly because you pay for shoddy code later. Google has long outgrown the kin…
Thank you for demonstrating the truth of Steve Yegge's observation in https://plus.google.com/u/0/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSK... that Google's software culture tends towards risk-adverse conservatism.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Email and face to face communication are completely different beasts though, particularly for tougher issues.
If your meeting absolutely positively must happen on a known weekly no-meeting day then there's really only three cases I can see: 1. You are bad at planning 2. You are bad at communicating 3. Something really, really bad happened and people will understand breaking policy There's a big difference between "no meetings ever" and this.
Sadly there is a particular type of person who discovers the day that nobody is supposed to go to meetings is the day when everybody is free and the meeting rooms are available. And then starts scheduling meetings for that day.
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#80fb culture is toolbagish