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> The cynic in me wonders if these employees are just responding to how others are starting to view their positions, more than ethical or moral quandaries. I t

> The cynic in me wonders if these employees are just responding to how others are starting to view their positions, more than ethical or moral quandaries. I think you hit the nail on the head. I doubt it has to do with moral qualms as employees. More to do with your friends and family giving you crap for working at a company that's getting bad press.

TAForObvReasons 9y ago
The best way to summarize FB employees, from @numair from 8 months ago: > Having known so many people involved with Facebook for so long, I have come up with a phrase to describe the cultural phenomenon I’ve witnessed among them – ladder kicking. Basically, people who get a leg up from others, and then do everything in their power to ensure nobody else manages to get there. No, it’s not “human nature” or “how it works.” Silicon Valley and the tech industry at large weren’t built by these sorts of people, and we need to be more active in preventing this mind-virus from spreading. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14780186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14780186
- galieos_ghost 9y ago
  The issue is people who in the past would have went to wall street are now going to Silicon Valley solely for the money and it has poisoned the culture. Tech companies shouldn't have pushed the coolness factor so much and instead let people continue to think tech was for nerds
  - CNJ7654 9y ago
    "Tech companies shouldn't have pushed the coolness factor so much and instead let people continue to think tech was for nerds" This. Right here. I'm convinced this is why we typically don't see this kind of culture pollution in areas of tech where the barrier to entry is still fairly high, requiring an amount of skill and dedication that these people are not willing to invest.
- dsacco 9y ago
  This is an exceptionally poor way to "summarize" the employees of any large company, including Facebook. Your personal ethics aside, whenever you're about to describe an entire company's staff using phrases like, "these sorts of people" and "mind-virus", you should stop and reconsider what you think you know about the world. You are making an uninformed judgement based on a generalization of over 20,000 people.
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TAForObvReasons 9y ago

The best way to summarize FB employees, from @numair from 8 months ago: > Having known so many people involved with Facebook for so long, I have come up with a phrase to describe the cultural phenomenon I’ve witnessed among them – ladder kicking. Basically, people who get a leg up from others, and then do everything in their power to ensure nobody else manages to get there. No, it’s not “human nature” or “how it works.” Silicon Valley and the tech industry at large weren’t built by these sorts of people, and we need to be more active in preventing this mind-virus from spreading. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14780186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14780186

galieos_ghost 9y ago
The issue is people who in the past would have went to wall street are now going to Silicon Valley solely for the money and it has poisoned the culture. Tech companies shouldn't have pushed the coolness factor so much and instead let people continue to think tech was for nerds
- CNJ7654 9y ago
  "Tech companies shouldn't have pushed the coolness factor so much and instead let people continue to think tech was for nerds" This. Right here. I'm convinced this is why we typically don't see this kind of culture pollution in areas of tech where the barrier to entry is still fairly high, requiring an amount of skill and dedication that these people are not willing to invest.
dsacco 9y ago
This is an exceptionally poor way to "summarize" the employees of any large company, including Facebook. Your personal ethics aside, whenever you're about to describe an entire company's staff using phrases like, "these sorts of people" and "mind-virus", you should stop and reconsider what you think you know about the world. You are making an uninformed judgement based on a generalization of over 20,000 people.
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