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by bubble_talk 2514 days ago
Facebook engineers know exactly what is going on, and I don't think they actually care.

If you want to see exactly how creepy the whole thing is going to get in the future, you just have to take a look at the transcripts from the Software Engineering Daily podcast where a group of engineers from FB were interviewed recently. The interviewer never once mentioned the word privacy in the entire interview across all the five interviews (with pretty senior FB folks who have been there for quite a while). Or for that matter, there wasn't really a single question across all the five interviews which left me thinking "Well, at least there is someone inside Facebook who disagrees at least minimally with company policies".

You can search for this in the transcripts yourself.

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>Facebook engineers know exactly what is going on, and I don't think they actually care.

I know of founders who would need to think carefully about even interviewing someone with Facebook on their resume. And I totally get these concerns given the attitude Facebook has towards the privacy of users.

> think carefully about even interviewing someone with Facebook on their resume

Good, engineers need to be accountable for their complicity.

What a witch hunt. This is akin to persecuting people for their politics.
Well, engineers can have a lot of ethical responsibility. A resume that show you have no scruples doing unethical things is a fine way to gauge if someone is a suitable match.

Not much different then background checks for working in schools or what ever.

If a founder or person in charge of hiring views a candidate as a threat to either the business or their customers then they have every right to pass on that candidate.
>This is akin to persecuting people for their politics.

Whether or not this is a bad thing strictly depends on the politics.

Accountability == Witch Hunt? Where have I heard this before...
Which is something people do. For example, you wouldn't hire someone who takes their politics to just-under-violent extremist levels, as it would be bad PR.
s/politics/ethics/
Probably edited, and FB kept editorial rights as part of the agreement to do those.