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> "I would assume his talk must have been approved internally in some way or form (unless any employee was able to give any talk they wanted without any form of
by amirmc 12y ago
> "I would assume his talk must have been approved internally in some way or form (unless any employee was able to give any talk they wanted without any form of supervision, in which case there's a deeper problem here)."
Your comment hinges on this assumption but it is ludicrous. Especially in this context. It is the antithesis of trusting your employees (and understanding that people sometimes screw up). It does makes me wonder about the kind of companies you've worked at.
- Xorlev 12y agoAgreed. My company does not review my slides before I present them, they vest me with the responsibility to moderate myself.
- GuiA 12y agoNever at a company that made the news in the way Atlassian did, I can tell you that much. ;) It seems that people interpreted my comment as implying that the talk would be reviewed by some pointy haired boss stamping a stack of forms. That is not what I meant at all. Rather, that a talk presented at such a venue would be given and vetted internally first, if only for the sake of technical correctness. In my career, I have never given a talk (whether while working for a private company, research lab, etc) without it having been given to colleagues first- again, if only for technical correctness/typos/etc. So again, here either no one from Atlassian saw the talk until the day of, which is terrible. Or people from Atlassian saw the talk beforehand and no one objected at the slide- which is even worse.