after boot camp, all engineers get access to live DB (comes with standard lecture about “with great power comes great responsibility” and a clear list of “fire-able offenses”, e.g., sharing private user data)
This is through a third-party, so I'm not shaking the finger at Facebook outright yet, but the wording of that — sharing private user data — is kind of frightening. What about merely accessing private user data? Like you mentioned, I know Google is super-paranoid about even simple data access.
And now someone from Facebook chimes in and replies to this and talks more about their developer privacy safeguards and makes us all feel better. Go!
> And now someone from Facebook chimes in and replies to this and talks more about their developer privacy safeguards and makes us all feel better. Go!
Former Facebook dev here. That's all I have to say in response.
I left late last year because I got a better offer and was fully vested. I suppose I was in a small minority that wasn't drinking the koolaid. The perks were nice, but ultimately I felt I wanted more stimulation than working on a social network, and didn't like some of the features that were being pushed (face recognition on photos, etc.) I'm grateful for the opportunity, and can't say much else.
This is through a third-party, so I'm not shaking the finger at Facebook outright yet, but the wording of that — sharing private user data — is kind of frightening. What about merely accessing private user data? Like you mentioned, I know Google is super-paranoid about even simple data access.
And now someone from Facebook chimes in and replies to this and talks more about their developer privacy safeguards and makes us all feel better. Go!