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My interpretation is that they were presenting themselves to the media who understood more about the topic they were discussing than they actually did. If you'r

• ghaff 4y ago
  Furthermore, while some companies are stricter than others, (and Google is reputedly quite strict), companies are generally not big on employees talking to reporters in a way that could be taken as speaking in an official capacity. >If you're a reporter and someone from company X comes to you saying they have important issues involving issue Y in product Z, you'll probably assume that they have significant expertise in issue Y - even if their involvement is only in some unrelated subcomponent of the actual product. At most companies, that scenario is probably going to get you in trouble if Company X hasn't actually OKd you to talk to that reporter. There's probably some grey area where you just wrote something on social media--but that's a reason to be cautious on social media.
  • olliej 4y ago
    If it's a FAANG talking in specific about anything work/employer related - unless you are working on OSS stuff; talking about new APIs, etc (as you'll see many engineers on twitter, etc after I/O, WWDC, etc) - is very much frowned* on. Certainly any such presence would need to take care to avoid the appearance of being a company rep, etc. There are very few companies that are likely to be ok with random employees talking to media, maybe not the same result as a FAANG, but I can't see avoiding any repercussions (e.g if a bank employee goes off and talks to the news presenting themselves as a rep from the bank, I don't see that going well) * frowned == new job