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Re:Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo by ksenzee on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @05:39PM (#24487017)
This is absolutely fair. When I ask people coming from Amazon why they left, I am very carefully listening to whether they like how Amazon treats its people or not. If I were interviewing an ex-Facebook employee, I'd want to hear some discomfort with Facebook's ethics.
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Re:Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo by iliekcomputers on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @05:54PM (#24487171)
Not sure if it's reasonable to expect people to badmouth their current employer in an interview, especially when you don't know the result of the interview.
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Re:Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo by ksenzee on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @06:02PM (#24487250)
The last ex-Amazonian I interviewed managed to express his discomfort with Amazon without "badmouthing" anything or anyone. I was impressed with his diplomacy. We hired him.
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Re:Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo by iliekcomputers on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @08:07AM (#24491798)
So it becomes an interview of diplomacy essentially. Not really sure if that's ideal. I could see many false negatives of people who are technically strong, uncomfortable with their employer's ethics but still avoiding the topic so as not to say too much by mistake.
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Re:Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo by ksenzee on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @04:24PM (#24497350)
In this particular case it was an engineering manager position. Diplomacy is part of the job description.
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Re:Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo by iliekcomputers on Thursday September 17, 2020 @07:36AM (#24503361)
That makes sense!
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Re:Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo by ghiculescu on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @06:10PM (#24487316)
In 2021, studying for the interview will not be memorising algorithms, it will be memorising which past jobs to pretend to regret.
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Re:Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo by jentist_retol on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @06:28PM (#24487468)
In my opinion, that's an unreasonable interpretation of: "asking a candidate how they feel about working on a product that made international news (in a bad way)"
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