Good fortune part aside. Why *is* everyone paying so much attention to engineers who just happened to work at a company early on, rather than the large number of persistent and consistent critics who've been researching and pointing out issues for years, with solid track records?https://twitter.com/DanRose999/status/1268294161939042304 …
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* they tend to be on a first-name basis with execs from ‘the early days’ * they tend to have recognition respect all across the org * they tend to have a high BS threshold or they would’ve quit a long time ago. When they act, it proves that something is different this time.
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i think typically the framing is in terms of moral authority; the early employees worked alongside the founders/current top executives and helped create the vision or corporate values that the founder now draws from in internal comms
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In SV there is an unstated yet pervasive ideology that early employees at successful companies are smarter, harder-working, and even more ethical than the rest of us. A new nobility. External criticism is tainted; they're probably just jealous or riding coattails
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(All stereotypes have some reality to them. A lot of external criticism really is laughably uninformed, both about the company's business and about how things really work.)
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FB and Google engineers benefit from the industry's strongest marketing operation: The companies are awash in money and subsidize a ton of open-source projects, and their highly-paid employees can travel to lots of conferences. We tend to learn their names.
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Another factor might be: ex-employees of very successful companies are more likely to have cashed stock options and can afford to risk burning bridges. The technical term "F-U money" was probably coined for a reason...
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