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I have enjoyed working at Facebook but as a POC, I do feel that the lack of diversity has affected the quality of work we do, and diluted the creative culture at Fb. Creative teams across the company are very white, and mostly male. While I'm excited to see more roles open up in Facebook for creatives, I worry that it affords teams and management opportunities to hire more white people. Instead of bringing in someone with a different experience that is talented and deserving of an opportunity. Sadly, I've seen BIPOC candidates get shortlisted, only to not make the cut for arbitrary reasons. 'Not a good fit' is a poor reason for someone who spent the time interviewing with us with a stella portfolio. I worry that teams are only bringing in certain candidates to meet some sort of quota or to appear "exhaustive" in their search, just so that they can hire another white person. I'm tried of observing these performative acts of diversity from creative leaders across teams and hope that this changes. We can do better, we should do better.

In my position I had a lot of influence in hiring and terminating employees. I have being exposed to dubious decisions in that area by upper management, actions taken without good-heart and with conflicts of interest. This behavior could only thrive in our Cult-like company where truly speaking out your mind could hurt your career. Quite ironically, the values of giving constant feedback are encouraged in Facebook, but in reality, employees are afraid of giving negative feedback as they know the potential devastating consequences of doing so. Negative feedback will be given about technical decisions and ideas but not about managerial decisions or the human resource department from fear of upsetting the wrong people.