Facebook's PR feels broken
&gt; I’m sure, internally, it’s looked at as the “mainstream media trying to get clicks...<p>I interviewed with FB shortly after the Cambridge Analytica stuff came out (but long enough after that it was clear to <i>everyone</i> that FB had screwed up big time).<p>When it was my turn to ask questions in one particular interview, I gave a standard fallback when I have nothing else: &quot;[despite all the blahblah positives], having worked at other technology companies, what&#x27;s your least favorite thing about working at FB?&quot;<p>This guy was a FB vet (maybe 5 or 10 years? Very long in FB time, I think). He gives me this spiel about how hard the teams work to maintain user privacy and how unfairly they&#x27;re being treated by the public and the media, and how hard it is to work in an environment where everyone treats you so unfairly.<p>I was floored. Not even a hint of apology, remorse, or &quot;we could have done X better&quot;. &quot;Unfair. Fake news. We&#x27;re doing great things, and no one thanks us enough.&quot; And from someone that had probably made a <i>mint</i> having been around at FB near-IPO time. It was my first or second of the day, and while no one else was so blatant, the sentiment persisted throughout the rest of the day.<p>I bombed the interviews hard, they didn&#x27;t want me back, but I had basically decided I&#x27;d never work there by the time lunch rolled around.