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Thoughts on this blog post alleging harassment (and worse) against Codesmith?

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u/INTERNET_POLICE_MAN wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

## History so far: - In 2009, Novati joined Facebook as a software engineer, progressing rapidly to the level of Principal Engineer (E7). He has publicly recounted a story about a game of Risk in which he deliberately betrayed Mark Zuckerberg, framing it as an example of “strateg

u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
PART 4 * Formation students have been shown to list their own training in a similar fashion on their CVs, which undermines the basis of Novati’s criticism. They do not in general. The example used was from 5 years ago when someone who did project based work at Formation that hasn't been offered for a while. Of the small number of people that list Formation, the vast majority, it's clear from the descriptions what it is. Codesmith students are crafted to appear like jobs and it's so bad we had to train our team to recognize Codesmith experience and not count it. * Across numerous threads, Novati used overlapping or contradictory accusations to generate confusion and impede fact-checking. This is a generalization. I protect the individuals that talk to me so I don't show their DMs. * He deleted comments, including his own, to distort the visible record of conversations and to suggest consensus where none existed. I edit comments a lot, both for grammar and for fact checking if I receive new information. * He repeatedly accused Codesmith of operating “bot accounts” to justify the removal of posts defending the company. This is not entirely correct, but also too long to explain here. * His activity often intensified around periods of positive publicity for Codesmith, indicating a deliberate pattern of targeted disruption. I respond to news events so if Codesmith published something I often offered commentary. This wasn't a deliberate pattern no. I equally responded to negative Codesmith events. * The effects on Codesmith were significant. Employees reported severe stress, morale decline, and fears of online harassment or doxxing. Several staff members left the company. This I have no idea about, no one told me about any of this before hand. The people I talked to that left said that they left because of a bad working environment at the Company.