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Early employee, AMA!
by tttioo12345 6y ago
Early employee, AMA!
- staunch 6y agoWas the technology real?
- ybiomepoopthrow 6y agoThat’s a hard question. Zac and Jessica fired people often and required things be done their way, which a was usually wrong or substandard. The result was that your poop was actually sequenced, but the results weren’t trustable
- victor9000 6y agoWhy was there so much turnover?
- tttioo12345 6y agoThe criminal behavior outlined in the indictment is completely inline with their other behavior. They always cut corners and misrepresented things, it just took a while to do so in a way that violated laws. I think you can look at the Trump White House for an example of a place with a lot of turnover that also had criminal conduct. Most people were fired for invented reasons or whims. Other people realized how toxic the founders were, and left.
- ryan_j_naughton 6y agoA comment above indicates two people got identical test result reports with a very long report. This seems unlikely unless either: - the system made specific predictions with very little data such that two people could get the same prediction and report simply bc they shared a few poop attributes that were key in the prediction (which would imply a very very bad model) Or - the reports were fake Can you speak to this?
- tttioo12345 6y agoYour questions assume the samples were tracked and assigned to the correct reports. Its much more likely that both samples were processed, and a software bug assigned them the same output. You have to understand the company wasn't organized around results, it was organized around the appearance of results. The employees were earnest and motivated to do the right thing, so the samples were likely processed, but something like a bug in the handoff or assignment of data is unlikely to be caught. Incorrectly assigned data isn't important when the real goal is to give the appearance of success.
- natosaichek 6y agoI was too. :-D Which team were you on?