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> Its almost like someone has a gun to their head and they are really carefully with what they say. It's not just one gun. Saying the wrong thing can get you i
by jf 16y ago
> Its almost like someone has a gun to their head and they are really carefully with what they say.
It's not just one gun. Saying the wrong thing can get you in trouble with any number of people: lawyers, PR, managers, and other employees.
I suspect that much of this is due to Microsoft being a large company, but I can't be sure as Microsoft is the only large company that I've worked for.
- pavs 16y agoGoogle and Mozilla did several AMAs on reddit too (I am trying to dig them out), they were done by no-bs engineers without PR people and lawyers hanging over their heads. Edit: I couldn't find the Mozilla AMA yet (I thought they fixed the reddit search!). But some Google AMA I could find: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/art8x/iama_google_search_engineer_amaa/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/art8x/iama_google_sear... http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/cj7im/iama_google_code_monkey_amaa/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/cj7im/iama_google_code... One from MSFTi http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/b142w/i_work_for_microsoft_ask_me_almost_anything/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/b142w/i_work_for_micro...