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and is the thing i like the least about working there

“Many former employees blamed the cult-like atmosphere partly on Facebook’s performance review system, which requires employees to get reviews from approximately five of their peers twice a year. This peer review system pressures employees to forge friendships with colleagues at every possible opportunity, whether it be going to lunch together each day or hanging out after work.”

im sure there's a better way to put it than "they forced me to make friends" also

stack ranking has always seemed insane to me

mostly to make sure no one was too easy of grader

yeah but there are always going to be stronger and weaker groups

but, for example, i had a team where 2 out of 4 members got “redefines expectations” which is top 2% of company or so

“There’s a saying at Facebook that once you have one bad half, you’re destined for bad halves the rest of your time there. That stigma will follow you,” said a manager who left in September.

I actually think it’s a dramatic improvement

<https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/the-world-pulls-the-andon-cord-on-the-737-max/>

stories of US pilots having to shutoff autopilot pretty damning on top of the actual crashse

```def is_ascii(str_):
    if sys.version_info.major &lt; 3:
        try:
            str_.decode('ascii')
            return True
        except UnicodeEncodeError:
            return False
    elif sys.version_info.major == 3 and sys.version_info.minor &lt; 7:
        try:
            str_.encode('ascii')
            return True
        except UnicodeEncodeError:
            return False:
    else:
        return str_.isascii()
```

It appears Mode is having the equivalent of game day tomorrow

I think I heard the word offsite at some point 

There are color accessories laid out in the cafeteria space so I assume it’s tomorrow 