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Re:A software change allowed FTX to use client money by barbariangrunge on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @11:45PM (#33980090)
Director of engineering != product manager in charge of deciding what features to include. If somebody tells engineering, “we will not use this feature illegally,” then it’s the fault of the higher ups who are possibly (?) trying to scapegoat somebody to protect themselves
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Re:A software change allowed FTX to use client money by oshkarr on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @03:24AM (#33981234)
"I was just following orders" went out of style in 1946. Software engineers are not mindless drones.
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Re:A software change allowed FTX to use client money by r_hoods_ghost on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @03:58AM (#33981428)
Directors have specific, well defined legal duties to their company which includes a duty of fiduciary responsibility. That is why they're directors rather than "head of product" or "VP of marketing" or whatever other meaningless title people bestow on themselves. Saying "my boss told me to do it so it is not my fault" is nonsense because you have no boss beyond your shareholders.
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Re:A software change allowed FTX to use client money by reverius42 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:05AM (#33981759)
That's Director as in Board of Directors. In this case, "Director of Engineering" probably just means "Manager of managers of engineers".
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Re:A software change allowed FTX to use client money by ummonk on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:14AM (#33981795)
Holding the title "director of X" doesn't mean you're necessarily on the board of directors.
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Re:A software change allowed FTX to use client money by xdavidliu on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:48AM (#33981961)
in fact, the two are probably anti-correlated
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Re:A software change allowed FTX to use client money by astrange on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @04:50AM (#33981681)
Isn't VP usually a higher title than director?

(Well, it's not in finance, but it could be in tech-like crypto finance.)

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