‘It’s time to move on’: Unease is growing among my friends in the tech sector

Liz Carolan - The Irish Times - 02/04
A new tell-all memoir by a former Facebook executive is selling fast, but it fails to recognise the full nature of corporate behemoths that prize growth above all else.

In the past few months I have noticed a steady uptick in a particular type of message from friends and acquaintances. It is the “I think it is time to move on” email, WhatsApp or LinkedIn private message, quietly asking for a coffee and a chat. They are coming – not exclusively, but primarily – from people working in tech.

There is a mood of quiet unease out there in the land of suddenly less fancy in-house canteens. This is no doubt contributing to the success of a new tell-all memoir by former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams, and why I had to visit multiple bookshops to track down a copy of Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work.

The book landed without much warning, perhaps an attempt to get it out into the world before the lawyers could shut it down. Perhaps this was even a subversion of Tech World’s “move fast and break things” approach to making facts on the ground that then have to be dealt with.

Either way Meta, Facebook’s parent company, managed to get an order blocking Wynn-Williams ...
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