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I can guess which FAANG you're at. "psychological safety" has been floating around the office recently. I mostly feel secure because (a) my ratings have been g
by 8n4vidtmkvmk 4y ago
I can guess which FAANG you're at. "psychological safety" has been floating around the office recently.
I mostly feel secure because (a) my ratings have been good, and more importantly (b) I don't think my team is going to get axed because we maintain a pretty core feature.
I think if you're in the bottom 6-8% or whatever they set the low ratings at, you're in danger. And if you're on a team that doesn't generate money/keep users on the app longer, you're in danger.
Neither of those apply to me, so I feel only very mild danger. Also, I just got my green card, so at least I won't get booted out of the country if they fire me now.
Downside is that there isn't much promo opportunity on my team either. If I want to be promoted based on technical ability instead of leadership/management (which I very much don't want, I'd have to switch to a more algorithm-heavy team but then (b) above might apply, and also I like my current team.
No camaraderie though. People don't properly communicate in general. A crapton of meetings, but no one goes out of their way to actually help eachother.
- whitemary 4y agoWhere is that paren supposed to close?
- bigdict 4y agoThe rest of HN is part of the parenthetical until there is a stray close paren.
- owlglass 4y agoI think I might be able to close it here)
- unsupp0rted 4y agoThank you. My HN linter was going nuts.
- thrill 4y ago"The function 'which' is undefined."
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 4y agoHm... I spent 20 seconds looking for an edit button, couldn't find one, so that paren is one with the people now.
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- bastijn 4y agoWhat you describe is more job security. Physilogocal safety is about feeling safe to speak up without being punished or humiliated for speaking up on ideas, concerns, or mistakes (etc.). If nobody is communicating properly it may be an indication your company has many people that don't feel safe.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 4y agoOh...well, then absolutely not. They promise "no retaliation" but I swear even their training video alludes to their being consequences to calling someone out on harassment. Plus a very recent article where the victim was fired. Speaking up about technical problems is mostly fine though. Might not accomplish anything but it's fine.
- koof 4y agoNeither of those things applied to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 4y agoAnd you let go? Damn :-( Sorry to hear that. Do you have any idea why that might have been?