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One sentence that caught my attention was "He doesn't care what he said yesterday, even if he was presented with the same product."
by raghus 17y ago
One 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.