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kristianc on May 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Happened When Facebook Hired Some Journalists

> “It was degrading as a human being,” said another. “We weren’t treated as individuals. We were treated in this robot way.”

Strange that people at Facebook would feel apathetic toward individuals that can't code.

dredmorbius on May 9, 2016 | [–]

Google has this disease quite badly, from multiple sources.

It's pretty common elsewhere in SV as well. And is a cardinal error.

drdeadringer on May 9, 2016 | [–]

Strange that their job was not to code but to do journalistic duties as journalists.

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