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As an intern you should know that you're not privy to plans and should refrain from public speculation about future investment. Other people might confuse it with an official announcement which can land you in a lot of trouble.

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I'm sure you meant well, but please don't scold fellow users like this on HN.

I don't want to start an argument but you are splitting hairs. It is quite clear from his disclaimer that he is an intern and it is pretty obvious to most people around here what that means socially within his company. You don't need to be patronising about it.

> and it is pretty obvious to most people around here what that means socially within his company

Genuinely curious here: can you expand on this a bit? I'm not quite sure what you mean.

Interns have access to a lot of private information. t's clear from the other comments that the confusion has already occured.

It's a serious fireable offence, or in this case a non offer at the end of the internship.

You're right. Sorry. I'll remember that

I don't think you have anything to be sorry for. You should be mindful of what you publicly say about your employer but being enthusiastic (if a bit uncritically) about your workplace is part of the point of interning. It's a lot less weird than someone making an account just to berate you about it.

I mostly regret the comment on F#. It's not my place to say and it makes it seem like I know more than I actually do.

The F# comment was the only thing I think that was out of place. It posed a definite non public position on a product.

But you clarified it after the fact so minimized any damage.

Microsoft will likely not care about it, but it is the kind of thing to be mindful of.

Most of the big tech companies will have some kind of training explicitly calling out off the cuff comments and how to be mindful of them.

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