Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo

Re:Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo by BinaryIdiot on Friday March 30, 2018 @03:54PM (#16719297)

> I was a Facebook employee for several years; I left shortly before this memo was drafted. The environment was pretty much the opposite of "don't rock the boat." Dissenting opinions were encouraged and openly discussed, but everyone understood that could only happen if it didn't undermine the PR department's job.

It likely depends on where you are in the company. I haven't worked at FB but have a few friends who have in the past. One of them told me something pretty similar to what you experienced, the other had the exact opposite.

So I'm honestly not sure what to believe about their culture. It seems, once a company gets big enough, that culture becomes multiple sub cultures and I'm not sure there is a single culture that drives the company anymore.

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Re:Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo by greenyoda on Saturday March 31, 2018 @04:17PM (#16724972)

It's also a question of the importance of the issue that you're "rocking the boat" about. It might be completely OK to argue with your manager about how the UI for a particular feature should look, but not OK at all to question the ethics of the company's mission, or the ways in which it makes money.

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