I haven't felt the need to downvote a post since PG stripped us of our ability to do so, but this is unmitigated crap. A poor attempt at satire in service to some large corp is not something that should grace the front page, and the resulting conversation helps no one. It's blog spam in a different form.
What I Hate About Working At Facebook
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#122Why make it impossible to read more than two lines, if the point is to show off how cool FB is? It is fascinating, that I really want to learn the good things, but I cannot get myself to read through the satire. Normally, I would be able to skim through it; even that triggers a gag reaction. Anybody has the same problem?
yuppies and humour don't mix. people who can't laugh at themselves will never be funny.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, but not all issues are "tough". Many people never write and always meet. And that's the wrong balance that annoys engineers.
Engineers typically go the other way though: always write email and never meet. Then they wonder why their project goes south because the specs are incomplete or the users aren't happy. I think it's largely a knee-jerk reaction against bad meetings - hour long no-point crapfests - but they don't have to be like that.
I think that's exactly it.
Some meetings useful, even helpful. But holding a useful meeting is not easy, which means there are many bad meetings. And that's what we should all avoid. Not meetings all together, but bad meetings.
I've been to great meetings that were facilitated well and had clear, productive goals. Those we should keep. And fortunately, when meetings are productive, there don't need to be as many of them.
But those hour long no-point crapfests, yea, no one needs those.
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#124I haven't felt the need to downvote a post since PG stripped us of our ability to do so, but this is unmitigated crap. A poor attempt at satire in service to some large corp is not something that should grace the front page, and the resulting conversation helps no one. It's blog spam in a different form.
That's what the flag function is for
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Satire is useful to detect people who have decided to agree or disagree before they've read what you've written.
Wait, what? You lost me at "Satire is useful to detect people". To me it seems like a passive-aggressive jab at those who complained about working at facebook, and left. "It's just a joke" is just a lame way of saying something, without anyone being able to actually call them on it. And to call this stuff satire is kind of extreme, too? Let's ignore the lameness for a sec: what, exactly, does it make fun of and shed…
I was making a broader point, not one about this piece in particular.
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#126I haven't felt the need to downvote a post since PG stripped us of our ability to do so, but this is unmitigated crap. A poor attempt at satire in service to some large corp is not something that should grace the front page, and the resulting conversation helps no one. It's blog spam in a different form.
I'm glad this made it to the front page, otherwise I wouldn't have read all the interesting debates in the comments.
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#127Too much code being committed? Too many decisions being made by engineers? Building a great product? Wow, talk about navel gazing. I get the satire point, but... This internally arrogant, externally ignorant attitude is why the stock is where it is. These ideals are not necessarily good for a mature business that needs to pay back the kind people that gave it money in the first place. Enjoy your free lunch, as there…
Facebook and "mature business"?
But more seriously, I think this is an all-too-human trait - once you are successful you start to greatly approve of yourself and look for reasons in your very DNA why you are where you are and then you start marketing that... when really, it was all a lot of luck and people seem to forget that pure chance is the biggest innovator and the bigger part of what they have actually done right is NOT spoiling the success that luck has brought them. There are and were a ton of companies with the same culture, the same great benefits for developers, the same productive environment but you never heard of them and they are gone now.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Perhaps the post was edited later, but they don't actually use it for interviews (ever).
See the photo album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151055286951458....
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#129Real 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'…
3. I don't know why you say that MZ does not have great intelligence. I met this kid in two occasions (outside the States) for professional issues and IMHO he is kind of shy- awkward but that someone does not speak up does not mean that he is not intelligent. Usually the opposite is true.
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#130Real 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'…
re: growth. Facebook has one billion active users. There are seven billion humans in the world. There is a lot of growth left.
Oh, yeah. You could add all the people that earn 1 dollar a day and spend tens of dollars/year on each of them using money from more pension funds investors.
That would be great...
Some advice, you could go out of Western countries and see how people live there.