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Fired from Meta After 1 Week: Here's All the Dirt I Got

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Re: Fired from Meta After 1 Week: Here's All the Dirt I Got

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It’s OK, but could’ve been much better. The author writes too highly of themselves, it’s too much “I am a lawful good hero fighting against a chaotic evil corporation”. It felt more like a kid making up a story at playground than satire. At every paragraph I expected the story to make fun of itself by ending with “and that programmers’s name? Albert Einstein” or “and then everyone clapped”.

Add some flaws to your genius programmer alter ego and some humanity to the villain, and the story will become way more interesting. You don’t need to go overboard, just add enough so it doesn’t feel like the story is populated by cardboard cutouts.

Is there another story from this author someone would recommend? Preferably not on Medium, but it’s OK if it’s the only option.

Re: Fired from Meta After 1 Week: Here's All the Dirt I Got

#8
Joke aside, I've known many people throughout the years who ended up at one of the big tech companies. All very ambitious and smart people, very diverse.

Only those that went to Facebook (Meta, whatever) all seem to have a certain personality trait (hard to pin down exactly, I would even cautiously say, some small aspect of their psychological makeup missing or mildly broken, but definitely the same among all people I know who went there).

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