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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 mav3rick »

high_derivative wrote: post #30
mav3rick wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about the KoolAid that HN drinks against anything Facebook, Google ? Biased takes without even reading the article.

Lots of HN readers (including myself) have worked at FAANGs. The cultural characterisation seems completely accurate to me. Everybody plays multiple games of performative open plan activity, pushing other people to join their projects, all with the friendly face of 'make the world a better place' while counting their RSUs.

Yes you had a shitty experience so it must all be bad.

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

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Post by ctchocula »

fasicle wrote: post #26
classified wrote: post #9

He's almost as good at selling advertisements as Facebook.

I actually think the way he advertises his products in his videos is pretty good, he does it so unashamedly

Reminds me of that quote from an Edward Yang movie: "I only fear 2 kinds of people: someone who fears nothing and someone who has no shame... And I don't think you're the type of person who fears nothing." Cut to speaker getting killed by the other person.

Nothing against TechLead. Just posting because it reminded me of one of my favourite quotes.

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

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Post by Juliate »

Oras wrote: post #27

Not far much from what he's doing on Youtube, isn't? Posting clickbait titles, crazy thumbnails .. etc to get views, likes and comments to rank up. I'm not defending Facebook nor attacking Shye, I just want to say that rules are pretty much the same for different games so why criticising one and accepting the other?

Because in one instance, it's a one-man-show, in the other, it's a giant international company?

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

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Post by high_derivative »

mav3rick wrote: post #31
high_derivative wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lots of HN readers (including myself) have worked at FAANGs. The cultural characterisation seems completely accurate to me. Everybody plays multiple games of performative open plan activity, pushing other people to join their projects, all with the friendly face of 'make the world a better place' while counting their RSUs.

Yes you had a shitty experience so it must all be bad.

Please do not argue like this on hn.

I did not say shitty. Clearly, there are strong benefits including pay, career development, network, benefits. Everything comes at a price. They price of that is the psychological pressure of a highly politicised environment with many subtle layers which can be hard to navigate for many.

My SO works in healthcare and their job is arguably tougher in every possible dimension even though end-to-end qualification time via med school was even longer. Almost every job is compared to FAANG research scientist.

That doesn't mean I wouldn't prefer the same or slightly worse benefits without the open plan and culture.

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

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Post by drcross »

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?

It's part of his comedy schtick. If you watch enough of his videos you realise how developed and deep his personality actually is.

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

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Post by Traubenfuchs »

masonic wrote: post #13
JacKTrocinskI wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Are they hiring?

Yes they are. All across the world.

Sadly, many of them already have (or plan to) do a "digital transformation". In a nutshell that means: Huge open space developer farms, firing old (expensive) engineers, forcing everything into Kubernetes, doing "sledgehammer agile (e.g. forced agile). This in turn leads to massive turnover.

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

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Post by creato »

zbuf wrote: post #20

There's something ironic about the criticism of Facebook internally as a popularity contest, then making $500,000/year from advertising on your popular YouTube channel.

Trying to be a celebrity is a very different career path than working at a big company. They shouldn't be similar.

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

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Post by mav3rick »

high_derivative wrote: post #35
mav3rick wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes you had a shitty experience so it must all be bad.

Please do not argue like this on hn. I did not say shitty. Clearly, there are strong benefits including pay, career development, network, benefits. Everything comes at a price. They price of that is the psychological pressure of a highly politicised environment with many subtle layers which can be hard to navigate for many. My SO works in healthcare and their job is arguably tougher in every possible dimension even t…

My problem is with any issue or article about these companies is not evaluated on merit. It's all conflated with one or the other issue. There are many people happy at these companies as well and some who really like the culture.

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

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Post by aedron »

hashberry wrote: post #3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-brF6SUXbns Brutal and hilarious. Good deadpan. "Without a doubt Facebook is one of the best offices I've worked in ... open office is like working in a warehouse, food is good, they have decent coffee."

Is that an actual Facebook office? Chairs and tables that look like a Walmart closeout sale (for garden furniture)?
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