Comment by ryandrake
1 year ago
> Conversely, we’ve hired many ex meta people, and they’ve always almost all unanimously said how much they NOW like having pride in the products they create, after jumping ship.
Just curious, did the ethics of their prior projects ever come up during the interview? I think I would have a problem hiring someone who worked on a product despite having ethical misgivings about how the product affected end users. Unless they could explain the extenuating circumstances that forced them to work on that product (sick family to care for, work visa being held hostage, and so on). If their response was simply, "I made metric X go up and got paid Y to do it," I don't think I could hire them in good conscience.
It’s a very easy question to dodge so doesn’t add much value.
Most of them just bury their heads in the sand and say that the negative effects weren’t made known to them, and they started looking for new work after they found out. Short of interrogating them, you can’t really suss out of its true.
Instead we ask what they’d do in hypothetical scenarios around our own products.