[ksenzee]

This is absolutely fair. When I ask people coming from Amazon why they left, I am very carefully listening to whether they like how Amazon treats its people or not. If I were interviewing an ex-Facebook employee, I'd want to hear some discomfort with Facebook's ethics.

[iliekcomputers]

Not sure if it's reasonable to expect people to badmouth their current employer in an interview, especially when you don't know the result of the interview.

[ksenzee]

The last ex-Amazonian I interviewed managed to express his discomfort with Amazon without "badmouthing" anything or anyone. I was impressed with his diplomacy. We hired him.

[iliekcomputers]

So it becomes an interview of diplomacy essentially. Not really sure if that's ideal. I could see many false negatives of people who are technically strong, uncomfortable with their employer's ethics but still avoiding the topic so as not to say too much by mistake.

[ksenzee]

In this particular case it was an engineering manager position. Diplomacy is part of the job description.

[iliekcomputers]

That makes sense!

[ghiculescu]

In 2021, studying for the interview will not be memorising algorithms, it will be memorising which past jobs to pretend to regret.

[jentist_retol]

In my opinion, that's an unreasonable interpretation of: "asking a candidate how they feel about working on a product that made international news (in a bad way)"