esman1

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   by esman1 9y ago

   To be fair, at least at FB (I can't speak to Google or Apple or Amazon): 1. Accessing someone's data when it's not mission critical to your work means you're fired on the spot. This is drilled into new engineers over and
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   by esman1 9y ago

   There's a tool for that, and it's certainly the preferred way to debug. Along with all the telemetry you get, for the vast majority of cases you don't need to touch anyone's data.
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   by esman1 9y ago

   Yes, but you have to explicitly request data every time you access anything. IDK what it was like when you interned, but that's what it's like today.
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   by esman1 9y ago

   You request access, and justify it with something like "I need it to debug issue #123". Someone manually oks/disallows it, and there's asynchronous reviews of these requests to double check. My guess is the intern lied a
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   by esman1 9y ago

   FWIW, as a Facebook engineer you have a ton of trainings on how to handle data privacy. And not only is every place where you can touch data actively logged/audited/monitored (this includes DB reads from code, admin tools, etc.),