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No offence, but am I supposed to expect a blog post on the Company blog about working with the founder to be unbiased? Given that and the reverential tone, I a
by ajju 17y ago
No offence, but am I supposed to expect a blog post on the Company blog about working with the founder to be unbiased?
Given that and the reverential tone, I am inclined to discount it.
Bonus exercise: Replace "Zuck" with "Chuck Norris" in the entire post and note how it doesn't seem any less ridiculous :)
- raghus 17y agoOne sentence that caught my attention was "He doesn't care what he said yesterday, even if he was presented with the same product."
- khelloworld 17y agoWell, then it'd probably suck to work for him. Is that supposed to be a hidden message...
- sunir 17y agoIf you're constantly trying to build the right thing, you have to be constantly willing to reject failed or obsolete ideas to keep moving forward.
- khelloworld 17y agoYeah. But, changing your stance every other day is something your engineers wouldn't probably appreciate all that much.
- sunir 17y agoThat depends on how engaged your engineers are in the product development process. If they are mere instruments of someone else's vision, no, but if they are also part of the idea creation process, then yes. Facebook constantly deploys and has an experimental mindset towards product development, so it's probably not as obnoxious as it sounds.
- ajju 17y agoI am beginning to wonder if the guy who wrote the post put some of this stuff in intentionally.
- wakeupthedawn 17y agoThere are obviously limits about what an employee can say about his boss, but I'd trust Boz's assessment more than just about anybody else's at Facebook. He didn't glorify Mark as some perfect boss but tried to communicate honestly about the nuances of his management style.
- ajju 17y agoMy intention was not to cast aspersions on the author of the post, I was merely pointing out that an employee who has to write about his boss on an official blog can't do much other than sing his boss' praises. Or as you put it, there are limits to what an employee can say about his boss on the official blog.
- kmavm 17y agoI work at facebook (not speaking offically, mind) and can vouch for the fact that this was originally not intended for public consumption. It was written and circulated on an internal mailing list months ago. We only put it up on the engineering blog after it "leaked" in a WSJ article yesterday, and we realized the "leak" really did more good than harm. I can see how this email can make it sound like there's a "personality cult" surrounding Mark Zuckerberg. It's not really that strange. Inside facbeook, he's a force of nature, like all other founder-CEOs: "working with Zuck" is properly a special topic, and facebook employees pay special attention to it, as I assume Apple employees do to "working with Steve", google employees do to "working with Larry and Sergey", and I did to "working with Diane" while at VMware.
- ajju 17y agoO.K. It makes more sense now.
- pnelly 17y agoHAHA, excellently put... Personally I don't like the way 'zuck' forces us to communicate with eachother. Also the fact that he has been actively grabbing patents and attempting to monopolise social networking is cause for concern. large companies, Please stop trying to own everything. It's ruining things for the rest of us. Apple and Facebook are two of the biggest culprits right now.
- dchest 17y agoReminds me of children's short stories about Lenin by Mikhail Zoshchenko. (I can't find them in English though, to put this in context for you. Anybody knows if they were translated?)
- ashu 17y agoThere is absolutely nothing in there which isn't matter-of-fact. Again, I work for FB (and I joined less < 2 yrs ago) so you will generally diss this as well, but w/e...
- ajju 17y agoLook, don't take this personally. I use Facebook everyday so clearly Zuck and his team (y'all) are doing something right. It is perhaps unavoidable that there will be a certain "dear leader" aspect to any essay on "How to work with the boss". I can even see why it may be necessary to share such an essay internally with a team that is growing fast. But given that essay is public, reverential and the content is something which outsiders can never verify personally, there's not much we can do except comment on the tone.