Re:Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has ...
by olliej on Sunday June 12, 2022 @11:42PM
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If it's a FAANG talking in specific about anything work/employer related - unless you are working on OSS stuff; talking about new APIs, etc (as you'll see many engineers on twitter, etc after I/O, WWDC, etc) - is very much frowned* on. Certainly any such presence would need to take care to avoid the appearance of being a company rep, etc.
There are very few companies that are likely to be ok with random employees talking to media, maybe not the same result as a FAANG, but I can't see avoiding any repercussions (e.g if a bank employee goes off and talks to the news presenting themselves as a rep from the bank, I don't see that going well)
* frowned == new job
>If you're a reporter and someone from company X comes to you saying they have important issues involving issue Y in product Z, you'll probably assume that they have significant expertise in issue Y - even if their involvement is only in some unrelated subcomponent of the actual product.
At most companies, that scenario is probably going to get you in trouble if Company X hasn't actually OKd you to talk to that reporter. There's probably some grey area where you just wrote something on social media--but that's a reason to be cautious on social media.