<story><title>Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-parent-meta-platforms-cuts-responsible-innovation-team-11662658423?mod=djemalertNEWS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sangnoir</author><text>&amp;gt; Teams like this attract a certain type of person, and it&amp;#x27;s not a builder.&lt;p&gt;Ditto for financial audit teams and so-called &amp;quot;IT security&amp;quot;: all they do is block, I&amp;#x27;ve never had anyone in either function build something or help me work faster, just additional processes and bureaucracy that slows down &lt;i&gt;real work.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;edit: I thought my sarcasm would be apparent, but Poe&amp;#x27;s law strikes again.</text></item><item><author>strix_varius</author><text>Teams like this attract a certain type of person, and it&amp;#x27;s not a builder. In order to justify your own existence, you &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; to invent blockers to place in front of people who are actually trying to build things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Karrot_Kream</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s because security, audit, and ethics teams aren&amp;#x27;t judged by how much they enable others, they&amp;#x27;re judged by how many threats they block. I work at a well-known tech company but joined when they were still very small. Our original security &amp;quot;team&amp;quot;, a team of 2 engineers, were highly plugged into the product and the concerns of the then-small engineering team. This team was always willing to help and enable builders to stay security conscious.&lt;p&gt;As we grew into a large company and our security team became an entire organization at the company, the org lost all connection with the product and became a more classic blocker-based team. The org lost empathy with the product and was judged on no product metrics, so naturally the culture in the org began to just be saying &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; to engineers all the time. A few of the earlier hires still try to help, but for the most part they just block.</text></comment>
<story><title>Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-parent-meta-platforms-cuts-responsible-innovation-team-11662658423?mod=djemalertNEWS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sangnoir</author><text>&amp;gt; Teams like this attract a certain type of person, and it&amp;#x27;s not a builder.&lt;p&gt;Ditto for financial audit teams and so-called &amp;quot;IT security&amp;quot;: all they do is block, I&amp;#x27;ve never had anyone in either function build something or help me work faster, just additional processes and bureaucracy that slows down &lt;i&gt;real work.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;edit: I thought my sarcasm would be apparent, but Poe&amp;#x27;s law strikes again.</text></item><item><author>strix_varius</author><text>Teams like this attract a certain type of person, and it&amp;#x27;s not a builder. In order to justify your own existence, you &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; to invent blockers to place in front of people who are actually trying to build things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sofixa</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not their job to build, it&amp;#x27;s their job to ensure that what &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt; build isn&amp;#x27;t crap on any number of fronts (security, compliance with regulations). You know, important things that impact your users (if you have the best software ever, but it leaks user PII in the HTML because you&amp;#x27;re a dickhead who wanted to build fast without any regard for security, that&amp;#x27;s not great).</text></comment>