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

Post by bigzyg33k » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 12:03 PM UTC

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

Let us celebrate this small moment of poignant joy of him being able to give a big “fuck you” gesture to Facebook, before he realizes that the very platform that he was able to express that sentiment is actually owned by Google and he hasn’t really escaped the wrath of Silicon Valley tech companies at all. (Maybe he’s even worse off than before; his labor as a Youtuber isn’t protected by any law at all, and he can lo…

Post by dvfjsdhgfv » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 2:13 PM UTC

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This has been noticed for a while now, to the point where there are various theories as to how corporations (and companies in general) are able to persuade people not only to do a service in exchange for money, but to adopt the desires of the company for themselves, to see "a job well done", and go above and beyond, even sacrificing compensation for some time for the company. It's fascinating from a social psychologi…

I've worked in large corporations most of my life. Each is its own ecosystem. The top dogs use their staff as minions. The tough minions get an attaboy. The weak (normal humans with a soul) leave. It is a self cleaning/adjusting system, no need to fire anyone, most people quit for softer/calmer/humane companies. In these large companies the #1 employee is the one who crushed everyone else on their path. No strange th…

Post by therealdrag0 » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 3:47 PM UTC

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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.

Post by fjp » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 5:27 PM UTC

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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.

Post by rad_gruchalski » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 10:22 PM UTC

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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.