<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>eropple</author><text>&amp;quot;Fast&amp;quot; is not the only descriptor that should be applied to work where a financial audit might be involved. &amp;quot;Correct&amp;quot; probably has a few things to say. &amp;quot;Legal,&amp;quot; too.</text></comment>