People also say cocaine brings out the true self, but I wouldn’t know.
> Facebook is not some giant monolith.
Harboring this thought has no actionable constructive value. Assuming the best intent, people here aren’t disgusted at fb engineers because they think they are making day-to-day evil decisions. They’re disgusted because they think fb engineers would have to believe facebook is overall a force for good, or at least neutral, to be able to continue working at facebook.
But rarely does an fb engineer here have the courage or the care to defend facebook in such a way. Often, they just point out that facebook is not a monolith.
I remember reading about a collection of interviews with drug dealers. The interviewer said the most common refrain they often heard from them was, “if I didn’t do it, someone else would.”
Even so, everyday I thank whoever took these specific FAANG decisions (off the top my head):
…adding the “Add to Home Screen” button on iOS safari for web apps.
…adding Firefox support for Google Meet (Microsoft teams and Zoom are still Chrome only I think)
I say this despite knowing these decisions were most likely not taken with altruistic intent and probably came from the top, relatively speaking.