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Ex-Facebook engineer mocks the culture and jokes about how he was fired

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Re: Ex-Facebook engineer mocks the culture and jokes about how he was fired

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Post by masonic »

JacKTrocinskI wrote: post #10
harryf wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow. There is so much stuff here on the borderline of dystopian nightmare, e.g. how he describes how http://work.facebook.com get's used as a popularity contest for decision making. It's almost exactly what David Eggers was describing in The Circle. Suddenly all those boring corporate workplaces pushing stuff in and out of an RDBMS look a lot more attractive...

I work at a place that pushes stuff in and out of an RDBMS, life is good here.

Are they hiring?

Re: Ex-Facebook engineer mocks the culture and jokes about how he was fired

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Post by harryf »

tester346 wrote: post #11

Basing on his milion videos that use "ex googler/facebook" in title to lure people, how he ain't just programming celebrity? Why should I care about his opinion?

Check out his LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickshyu - from the projects he describes there, seems like he can back it up. And what's wrong with telling people you're an "ex googler/facebook"? If that's the experience you have to share, fair enough.

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Post by tester346 »

harryf wrote: post #14
tester346 wrote: post #11

Basing on his milion videos that use "ex googler/facebook" in title to lure people, how he ain't just programming celebrity? Why should I care about his opinion?

Check out his LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickshyu - from the projects he describes there, seems like he can back it up. And what's wrong with telling people you're an "ex googler/facebook"? If that's the experience you have to share, fair enough.

There's nothing wrong with telling people you're an "ex googler", but mentioning it whenever you can is quite... weird?

I mean from Youtuber that wants to get viewers perspective it's perfectly reasonable, but generally it looks not nice for me.

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Post by djmips »

“It’s kind of this game for people to get as many likes and comments on their posts,” he said. “If you’re into popularity contests, if you thrive in that type of environment then you’ll probably do really well.” - Well that's exactly the game he's into with YouTube... so then why did he get fired?

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Post by beardedman »

djmips wrote: post #17

“It’s kind of this game for people to get as many likes and comments on their posts,” he said. “If you’re into popularity contests, if you thrive in that type of environment then you’ll probably do really well.” - Well that's exactly the game he's into with YouTube... so then why did he get fired?

Producing original content != sycophantic ladder climbing.

The means might look the same on the surface, but very different beasts under the hood.

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Post by dijit »

tester346 wrote: post #11

Basing on his milion videos that use "ex googler/facebook" in title to lure people, how he ain't just programming celebrity? Why should I care about his opinion?

From what I can gather the guy is going in on satirical comedy. Specifically in the way we tend to evangelise these big tech companies and those who work for them.

Sometimes his delivery is so deadpan that I get an odious vibe from it. But it does seem that he’s not serious and is using his previous status as a part of the humour.

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