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It is impossible to have an internal oversight team that’s without a conflict of interest. From law enforcement to newspapers to government to technology — unl
by O__________O 4y ago
It is impossible to have an internal oversight team that’s without a conflict of interest.
From law enforcement to newspapers to government to technology — unless there’s demand from the public and oversight is independently funded and managed, without fail, function of team will end up either functionally meaningless or aligned to the parent organization’s core objectives.
Beyond that, no venture is without flaws, and until people are able to acknowledge that optimal solution do not mean zero negative impact, it will be a race to the bottom for which another culture that’s able to manage the complexity either by luck or skill will eventually replace those who are unable to do so.
- advisedwang 4y agoThere's a big difference between a conflict of interest with the company at large and a conflict between teams. For example at Google SRE vs SWE is set as a conflict which mirrors reliability vs dev-velocity trade-offs. And that works OK because both are valued by the company and so by being the decision maker on that conflict leaders get given a way to adjust that trade-off. In an ideal world the "responsible innovation" team would represent one side of a "speed and scope" vs "PR, compliance and political considerations". So even though it goes against some of Meta's goals, it would be valued for achieving others. However sadly in practice any time a set-up like this has "money" on one side of the balance, it's always going to win. So the team was set up with an impossible task.