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I like you principles: > "do not spin, do not mischaracterize, do not omit, do not grey-pattern." I try to effectively add something like: be honest, be open,
by bjelkeman-again 2y ago
I like you principles:
> "do not spin, do not mischaracterize, do not omit, do not grey-pattern."
I try to effectively add something like: be honest, be open, be compassionate. It seems obvious. But apparently it isn’t, as we get to hear from those we work with, and their experience in other jobs.
- homarp 2y agoremind me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil worked out well for them
- hardlianotion 2y agoThat's hard to scale and they got too big.
- nehal3m 2y agoThat’s a cynical take but I have to agree. If your principles don’t scale, don’t scale.
- marcosdumay 2y agoI'm not sure it's about scale. Their current structure demands evilness, and they (or their investors) choose that structure.
- rachofsunshine 2y agoI wanted to be more specific than that. A good principle should lay out, clearly, what you will NOT do. I'm sure I could argue that, say, failing to mention that one of our candidates did poorly on a coding problem could be characterized as "not evil". The company I'm talking to will probably over-weight that observation, they might think themselves out of an otherwise-desirable hire, and the candidate might lose an opportunity! Surely it's right to just tell this one little white lie... The reason for the phrasing I used is to make it clear that no, we don't do that. And this comes up all the time. I find myself reminding myself of that principle almost daily when those little temptations to just skew things just a little bit pop up.