Latest Viral Craze: Ex-Staffers Bashing BuzzFeed on YouTube
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#2Granted, this submission is likely receiving a lot of upvotes because the headline contains the phrase "Bashing BuzzFeed", but the concerns echo submissions that tend to be important to HN, such as the rights of individual contractors/ownership of product. Although bashing your former employer is not a good long term strategy.
Disclosure: I am currently working on a "Why I Left Apple" blog post/video, albeit much different than the examples in the article.
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#3Clickbait header opportunity missed :( Of all places, where that would be legitimate...
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#4The Chubbs parody video[0] is very funny and spot on.
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#5Granted, this submission is likely receiving a lot of upvotes because the headline contains the phrase "Bashing BuzzFeed", but the concerns echo submissions that tend to be important to HN, such as the rights of individual contractors/ownership of product. Although bashing your former employer is not a good long term strategy. Disclosure: I am currently working on a "Why I Left Apple" blog post/video, albeit much dif…
Serious question - can someone please explain the purpose/appeal of these "Why I Left X" blog posts/videos?
I'm from a generation where you didn't publicize this kind of stuff, and I'm not quite sure I understand the intent/social value of such posts/videos outside of the "whistleblowing" types of posts. Absent of any context, these posts/videos just strike me as self promotion.
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#6This article is more interesting than its title suggests. You think it'll be a schadenfreude-filled dish on problems with buzzfeed but no:
1. BF trains people to go for eye-catching content and personalities, so as people leave in the normal course of events they call attention to their departure as a way of helping their own career.
2. BF basically doesn't come off as a bad place and indeed seems to be teaching these people to do, well, item #1.
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#7Granted, this submission is likely receiving a lot of upvotes because the headline contains the phrase "Bashing BuzzFeed", but the concerns echo submissions that tend to be important to HN, such as the rights of individual contractors/ownership of product. Although bashing your former employer is not a good long term strategy. Disclosure: I am currently working on a "Why I Left Apple" blog post/video, albeit much dif…
Serious question - can someone please explain the purpose/appeal of these "Why I Left X" blog posts/videos? I'm from a generation where you didn't publicize this kind of stuff, and I'm not quite sure I understand the intent/social value of such posts/videos outside of the "whistleblowing" types of posts. Absent of any context, these posts/videos just strike me as self promotion.
> I'm from a generation where you didn't publicize this kind of stuff
Which is incidentally the exact reason why the posts are popular. There has been a taboo on hiring/firing literature, and only recently have people become more transparent with information that is very valuable. Having unique perspectives makes you stand out, although admittingly in the case of posts which make it to the top of HN, it's often the interview-from-hell from a Big 4 or a "my incredible journey" exit. (both of which are tropes that are not applicable in my blog post)
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#8Granted, this submission is likely receiving a lot of upvotes because the headline contains the phrase "Bashing BuzzFeed", but the concerns echo submissions that tend to be important to HN, such as the rights of individual contractors/ownership of product. Although bashing your former employer is not a good long term strategy. Disclosure: I am currently working on a "Why I Left Apple" blog post/video, albeit much dif…
Serious question - can someone please explain the purpose/appeal of these "Why I Left X" blog posts/videos? I'm from a generation where you didn't publicize this kind of stuff, and I'm not quite sure I understand the intent/social value of such posts/videos outside of the "whistleblowing" types of posts. Absent of any context, these posts/videos just strike me as self promotion.
Self-promotion is exactly what they're contextualized as in the article. These are aspiring entertainment media personalities.
edit: Unless you meant solely gp's context of an engineer posting about a similar topic. I defer on that, I was talking about the BuzzFeed employees.
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#9Granted, this submission is likely receiving a lot of upvotes because the headline contains the phrase "Bashing BuzzFeed", but the concerns echo submissions that tend to be important to HN, such as the rights of individual contractors/ownership of product. Although bashing your former employer is not a good long term strategy. Disclosure: I am currently working on a "Why I Left Apple" blog post/video, albeit much dif…
Serious question - can someone please explain the purpose/appeal of these "Why I Left X" blog posts/videos? I'm from a generation where you didn't publicize this kind of stuff, and I'm not quite sure I understand the intent/social value of such posts/videos outside of the "whistleblowing" types of posts. Absent of any context, these posts/videos just strike me as self promotion.
Because blogging and publishing videos is easier than ever. Nothing has changed about the culture.
In 1972, if someone left a company, they would willingly tell anybody who cared to ask. It is a frequent question during the interview process because it is insanely useful in helping to understand a potential hire. You didn't publicize this kind of stuff because the effort of typing it and Xeroxing it for your zine wasn't worth the reward of a reader getting some sort of insight into the company culture.
But now publishing that thought requires almost no effort beyond just typing it or saying it. That's it. It's just a personal story.
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#10This just confirmed my dinosaur status. I had no idea what BF did or that a video factory existed to such an extent.
Don't despair, I still go to YouTube to see how to fix things.