Mark Zuckerberg messages Facebook engineer

From the perspective of the “engineer”’s responses, I’m guessing by this is a VERY senior engineer, maybe a technical fellow or whatever Facebook calls them.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg messages Facebook engineer

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Post by fujinghg » Sat, Feb 08, 2025, 10:15 PM UTC

sk11001 wrote: post #2

Pretty cool. Stuff like this doesn't happen enough at non-tech companies.

It does. They just usually don't have cash on hand to get out of the fuck ups from doing zero rational financial analysis and disappear in a puff of smoke 6 months down the line.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg messages Facebook engineer

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Post by spydum » Sat, Feb 08, 2025, 10:17 PM UTC

sk11001 wrote: post #2

Pretty cool. Stuff like this doesn't happen enough at non-tech companies.

Yeah I would strongly disagree it does happen just sometimes those senior engineers are not as enlightened as the executives think.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg messages Facebook engineer

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Post by buildbot » Sat, Feb 08, 2025, 10:18 PM UTC

Seems like Zuckerberg had already made up his mind and needed an engineer to positively confirm his desired path through a very power imbalanced chat...

No shade towards the engineer at all, but besides the very first "My instinct is” comment the engineer literally could have just been ChatGPT and Zuck would have gotten a similar convo.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg messages Facebook engineer

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Post by buildbot » Sat, Feb 08, 2025, 10:19 PM UTC

brookst wrote: post #4

From the perspective of the “engineer”’s responses, I’m guessing by this is a VERY senior engineer, maybe a technical fellow or whatever Facebook calls them.

Yeah, like just below the CTO or whoever probably. Even then they just quickly switch to just kinda bouncing the whatever Zuck comes up with back at them.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg messages Facebook engineer

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Post by ysofunny » Sat, Feb 08, 2025, 10:23 PM UTC

buildbot wrote: post #7

Seems like Zuckerberg had already made up his mind and needed an engineer to positively confirm his desired path through a very power imbalanced chat... No shade towards the engineer at all, but besides the very first "My instinct is” comment the engineer literally could have just been ChatGPT and Zuck would have gotten a similar convo.

if this cartoon [1] is a reliable source, then maybe it's not (or possibly didn't used to be) such a strange thing at facebook

[1] https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts

Re: Mark Zuckerberg messages Facebook engineer

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Post by NoboruWataya » Sat, Feb 08, 2025, 10:30 PM UTC

buildbot wrote: post #7

Seems like Zuckerberg had already made up his mind and needed an engineer to positively confirm his desired path through a very power imbalanced chat... No shade towards the engineer at all, but besides the very first "My instinct is” comment the engineer literally could have just been ChatGPT and Zuck would have gotten a similar convo.

In fairness if the founder and CEO pings me and asks me who the company should buy, you can bet I'm giving a similarly hand wavy bullshit answer.