How Facebook Ships Code

Re:How Facebook Ships Code by holman on Monday January 17, 2011 @01:18PM (#2112907)

after boot camp, all engineers get access to live DB (comes with standard lecture about “with great power comes great responsibility” and a clear list of “fire-able offenses”, e.g., sharing private user data)

This is through a third-party, so I'm not shaking the finger at Facebook outright yet, but the wording of that — sharing private user data — is kind of frightening. What about merely accessing private user data? Like you mentioned, I know Google is super-paranoid about even simple data access.

And now someone from Facebook chimes in and replies to this and talks more about their developer privacy safeguards and makes us all feel better. Go!

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Re:How Facebook Ships Code by pollockmania on Monday January 17, 2011 @02:55PM (#2113185)

> And now someone from Facebook chimes in and replies to this and talks more about their developer privacy safeguards and makes us all feel better. Go!

Former Facebook dev here. That's all I have to say in response.

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Re:How Facebook Ships Code by joe_the_user on Monday January 17, 2011 @06:41PM (#2113911)

Call me slow, but can someone explain to me what the above post mean?

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Re:How Facebook Ships Code by mokkos on Monday January 17, 2011 @07:36PM (#2114052)

I think he was talking about "developer privacy safeguards". Basically, there is none.

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Re:How Facebook Ships Code by Charuru on Monday January 17, 2011 @07:59PM (#2114119)

Since there was no denial we can reasonably assume there are no stringent safeguards against engineers accessing user data.

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Re:How Facebook Ships Code by lwat on Monday January 17, 2011 @07:21PM (#2114010)

I believe he is not confirming or denying the allegations. Make of that what you will.

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Re:How Facebook Ships Code by pak on Monday January 17, 2011 @05:35PM (#2113746)

Since this is your alias, I hope you won't mind my curiosity--when did you leave the company, and do you have any thoughts about leaving?

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Re:How Facebook Ships Code by pollockmania on Monday January 17, 2011 @06:30PM (#2113888)

I left late last year because I got a better offer and was fully vested. I suppose I was in a small minority that wasn't drinking the koolaid. The perks were nice, but ultimately I felt I wanted more stimulation than working on a social network, and didn't like some of the features that were being pushed (face recognition on photos, etc.) I'm grateful for the opportunity, and can't say much else.

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