... The more I looked into this, the more it became clear to me that people need
to know the story. We need to understand what happened. And FB management, HR,
they are not covering this properly. In fact, rumors are that they are trying to
hide this and not even admit that this is a suicide. They are simply saying that
an employee passed away and that if you need help you should go get some help,
get some consuling. That's about all they are doing now.
... as well as myself that the way he chose to die he tried to send a message
out and FB upper management they are completely ignoring that and they are
sweeping it under the rug.
Anytime sth like this happens, executives will be doing everything they can to
make you forget about it. Maybe they will have a TownHall Meeting in which they
answer a few questions, tell you to get some consuling, call some crisis
numbers, and sweep everything under the rug and in two week they hope you forget
about this whole thing and they won't have to change a thing. Just probably
what's going to happen.
Let me tell you though the details I know about this case. I don't know Qin
personally. I'm still piecing together parts of the story. But the allegation
appears pretty serious which is why I think we need a full investigation. As I
understand it, he was working in the advertising group, which is already a
high-stress group, you know. Any smart technical issue, it can cause millions of
dollars of revenue loss. Now his performance rating was starting to suffer. And
if you are not performing well for multiple quarters, then you are put on the
PIP plan, performance improvement plan, which is essentially the path to you
getting fired.
According to a report, so many people in his team burnt out of stress and
starting to leave.
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... and the management would squeeze every blood out of ICs to hit PSC goals.
There have been times I wanted to kill myself and were reading our death
benefits that my wife will get if I die at work."
So apparently, Qin was not alone in feeling that high stress environment. The
final straw came in when there was a SEV which is a severe site event,
essentially like a crash where production servers go down or something due to
some technical error and it was assigned to Qin, the SEV review, and apparently
he tried to delay the process, push that review back but internal script
prohibited that and blocked that process. So he was forced to do this and what's
telling was that just an hour before the SEV review, he committed the suicide.
He jumped.
And from this you can kind of paint a picture of the amount of stress he may
have been under: the REV review, the internal transfer being blocked,
performance rating meant that he would be fired soon, not to mention he was also
on an H1B visa. So his ability to remain in the US was also seriously at risk
here. Within 60 days of being let-go he would have to have another visa sponsor
or he would have to return back to China.
Some of you may be wondering with a background like that couldn't he just go get
another job? The thing is, maybe he was mentally ill in some capacity.
Depression is not logical. It is an impulse decision and, you know, I've been
there myself. I have moments too when I've been very depressed. Your heart sinks
your eyelids just want to close. And you know, you take a look at a ledge, a
balcony and you just think "Oh yeah. That's a quick way to end it."
I would encourage any of you who are feelign like this to get some help. They
have a suicide hotline which you can call. But I hope we can honor Qin's death
by making sure that it's not in vain. How sad would it be if in two weeks, two
months, or two years from now, this happen again? Over and over again, and we
just learn nothing.
You know the way he decided to die, I think he tried to make a statement in
such a public fashion. It seems that facebook leadership has simply muted it,
silenced it. They just told people due to privacy concerns and respect for the
family, do not talk about it. And essentially every facebook employee is
now silenced from this censure. Many people don't feel safe talking about this
and it's clear that so many people in that company still feel that culture is
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No company is taking care of their employees at current world. We have been gone through rounds of rounds of layoff, reorg. Then finally, the company decided not to pay severance package so they can CUT COST. Now everyone is living in hell - the so called leadership purposely make everyone uncomfortable, disaster, so employee will have to leave; or they will MAP you a role you know it is not your right fit, then you will get low-performance and forced out. And all the cause is there are some cheaper incompetent outsourcing people there to replace us.
