I used to work for Facebook until a couple of months ago, and I know for a fact that a lot of FB employees still post here. The problem is that presenting your

I used to work for Facebook until a couple of months ago, and I know for a fact that a lot of FB employees still post here. The problem is that presenting yourself as a Facebook employee gives you a deluge of angry HN responses that are normally unrelated to your current post. It's not the bad press alone, but the design of HN and other comment ranking systems make it harder for "unpopular" commenters to get a good signal to noise ratio. Also, there's the media. Everyone has seen too many clickbait stories based on a single anonymous comment by an FB employee to risk writing anything.