Facebook is seeking passionate engineers to identify, advise, investigate and mitigate privacy violations and/or exposures in our products. Your skills will be the foundation for understanding privacy risks in Facebook initiatives by being the technical advocate for privacy decisions and discussions across the company. You will be relied upon to provide engineering and product teams with the privacy expertise necessary to make confident product decisions.
We are seeking both individual contributor and managers.
I am an engineering manager in the same organization. I support a related team that helps people find security flaws faster with static analysis. I am happy to answer questions about what it's like to work in security and privacy at Facebook. My email is dmolnar -at- fb.com . Twitter is @dmolnar and DMs are open.
There were at least two programs when I was there. I heard a lot more about them under Ballmer than under Satya.
HiPo -- for junior to mid level -- special training, networking, and seminars. MiniMSFT comments section mentions this from time to time.
Bench -- for mid to later career, usually on the way to "partner" or above level -- same as HiPo, but may be asked to work on a project with others in Bench, may see attention from VPs mentoring the group.
Neither one had any official impact on ratings, rewards, or career velocity. What they did do, however, was establish an elite and help that elite network across the company.
Ah thanks for jogging memory in regards to the names. :)
> Neither one had any official impact on ratings, rewards, or career velocity.
Ah interesting, my understanding was that people who can gone through HiPo were sorta blessed. Then again I guess in theory the people who get selected for HiPo should already be doing the work to make their career velocity look good.
I saw all sorts of interesting stuff while I was at MS. It was a crazy place to work. It was sort of like working at a company that does everything 5-8 years too early, and then tries again 2-3 years too late.
* Tablets
* eBooks
* MP3 players
* Smartphones
* Smart TVs (Micorosft bought Web TV in 1997!! That is what, 15-20 years too early?)
* Tablets again
* Cloud based document syncing (See: What Sharepoint tried to be)
They also made some sort of automation creation tool for business users that, IIRC, got cancelled after one release and replaced with something else. I only know about it because I signed up to do internal user testing for it.
This is on top of all sorts of crazy one off projects. (In 2011 I was on a team attempting to make an autonomous household robot! How long before those become a viable thing outside of Roombas?)
It was only because they weren’t good enough that they didn’t succeed, not that they were “too early”. Right idea, wrong execution, or frequently the hardware not being there yet, and not pouncing when it was.
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This is valuable advice. The supervisor is absolutely the most important consideration. It is worth pointing out two things that are different in many U.S. universities.
1) PhDs in the U.S. in CS take between 3-10 years to finish. Less if you are in theory and have a strong set of results off the bat that align around a single area. More if you need to build something with a long cycle time, such as create a new architecture and build a chip.
The first 2-3 years will have classes and feel a little like undergrad. After that it transitions into the free-form research as the post describes. Unlike in the U.K., typically you do not have a hard stop at 4 years, and you can find teaching assistantships or other sources of funding to keep going a year or two at a time.
The good news is that you have more time with relative freedom. The bad news is depending on your advisor, it is easy to drift for years without making much progress.
2) In all the U.S. universities I know, the standard state is for you to be employed by the university as a teaching assistant or a "graduate student researcher." This has impact on intellectual property. For example, the University of California used to ask and may still ask all employees to sign a "Loyalty Oath and Patent Assignment Agreement."
we'd love to see that too. as well as uber here in sf. like my co-founder said here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912389), we'd love to see people build all kinds of things like crowdfunding-as-a-service (think kickstarter meets wordpress).
whether it's a feature in a current app like exec/taskrabbit or it's own app like a dinner-bill splitting mobile app (take a picture of the receipt, ocr, text it out, everyone's charged once the total is reached or exceeded, etc) the api was built to help any time groups and money interact... and we hope this renders the ideas devs come up with endless.
(Disclosure: Microsoft employee writing this on a Surface with Touch Cover)
Check out the Samsung Series 7 slate. 128GB SSD, 4GB RAM, core i5. 11.6 inches and a little less than 2 lbs. Unfortunately I don't know where you could find one in person to play with. I've been using it with Win8 for a bit and quite liked it -- with the dock and a keyboard you can run Visual Studio just fine.
Looking at the Series 7 right now at Amazon [1], the Surface Pro version of this with a similar spec would be nice for the Type Cover, and note that this has similar tech specs as my 2011 Macbook Air, indeed a very promising replacement for Air+iPad, I'll keep watching but will skip this iteration simply for having purchased the iPad 3 recently. (.NET Developer here)
Count me in. My initial focus is going to be on the RTP area, and trying to get a meatspace meetup going, that caters to folks of this mindset. But if a new hub for cypherpunk (and related) thought emerged online, I'd definitely join in.
Facebook is seeking passionate engineers to identify, advise, investigate and mitigate privacy violations and/or exposures in our products. Your skills will be the foundation for understanding privacy risks in Facebook initiatives by being the technical advocate for privacy decisions and discussions across the company. You will be relied upon to provide engineering and product teams with the privacy expertise necessary to make confident product decisions.
We are seeking both individual contributor and managers.
The job description for individual contributors https://www.facebook.com/careers/v2/jobs/442604633040190/
For managers https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/2317996711826538/
I am an engineering manager in the same organization. I support a related team that helps people find security flaws faster with static analysis. I am happy to answer questions about what it's like to work in security and privacy at Facebook. My email is dmolnar -at- fb.com . Twitter is @dmolnar and DMs are open.