Friends @ G and FB said their L7 promotions depended on squeaky clean private data. True?
Friends at G and FB just made E7 and L7 respectively and both said that they were privately informed that their promotions depended on extensive review of their private data held by the company; searches, private messages, personal emails, likes, follows, purchases, etc.
As one said “They basically said they wanted to make sure that they weren’t promoting some well hidden racist or extremist by accident, so if theres anything unsavory in your personal life it’s really best for us to not put you up for promotion”. One said the search was perfomed by an automated blackboxed system that basically looked for keywords, and the other was done by a team of people.
Any truth to this, and do any other companies do this?
(I can see it not being done for lower level people but for L7 I think it’s plausible.)
#career #promotion
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