According to People's Daily, at noon on September 19, outside the headquarters building of Facebook (Facebook) in Monroe Park, California, a Chinese man Chen Qin jumped down from the top floor of the company and died on the spot. Subsequently, Facebook issued a statement confirming that the deceased was an employee of the company and said: "We are sorry to learn that one of our employees died at our headquarters. We are working with the police to investigate and provide assistance to the employees' families." According to the LinkedIn page, Chen Qin is 38 years old and graduated from Zhejiang University. After arriving in the United States, he studied for a master's degree at the University of Southern California, and joined Facebook in April 3html last year.
According to China Daily, on October 7, Chinese engineer Yin Yi was fired by Facebook for publicly supporting her Chinese programmer colleague who committed suicide. Yin Yi said that he participated in a protest about the matter and was interviewed. He then received a final warning letter, then was asked to go home to work, and was eventually fired by Facebook.
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After Chen Qin committed suicide, Facebook said in a statement to the media:
We are saddened by the loss of Qin Chen, the employee at the headquarters in Monroe Park City, last week. During this time, we are doing our best to support his family and loved ones.
All our actions are guided by the world's leading external experts in suicide prevention. We care very much about our employees, provide on-site consultations to our employees and those contracted with the company, and provide mental health and suicide prevention support to all employees.
Finally, we unite the company by creating a secure space, publicly sharing through our internal resource team.
According to the US media CNBC on the 27th, due to dissatisfaction with Facebook's overly simple and formulaic response, on September 26, nearly 200 Chinese gathered outside the Facebook company headquarters and demanded "Justice for Qin" to urge senior executives at Facebook headquarters to respond to people's demands and publicly investigate the matter.
At the protest scene on September 26, Yin Yi took the stage with a working license plate and took the lead in shouting slogans to ask the company to find out the truth and improve the working environment.
According to LinkedIn information, Yin Yi graduated from the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University in 2005 and was previously a senior software engineer at Facebook.
According to Yoon Yi, at the scene, he was interviewed by ABC TV and Sing Tao Daily. When asked whether Facebook suppressed freedom of speech, Yoon Yi firmly replied: does not.
"At least I didn't encounter anything like that (Facebook suppresses freedom of speech) at that time," said Yin Yi. In addition to protesting during this period, Yin Yi also expressed her condolences to the family of the engineer named Chen who was present.
After returning to the office, considering that Facebook has regulations that employees cannot accept interviews as the company, Yin Yi sent the interview summary to the director of the group and forwarded it to the HR. The HR responded to the email saying that employees were prohibited from talking about Chen Qin's suicide inside and outside the company.
On September 27, Yin Yi was arranged to attend an extraordinary meeting, and the participants also included HR and the director of Yin Yi's group. At this meeting, HR made two requests to Yin Yi: First, on the grounds of protecting the privacy of engineers surnamed Chen, it is not allowed to discuss this matter inside and outside the company. and the other is that related activities to visit the family of engineers surnamed Chen need to be arranged by the company, and individuals are not allowed to carry out privately.
On October 1, Yin Yi received a final warning letter, but Yin Yi said that the final warning letter did not state which provision he violated or what kind of bad impact he had caused. Yin Yi should ask his "mentor" for help in the final warning letter, but the "mentor"'s face changed drastically and said, "I don't want to talk about this matter." At noon that day, Yoon Yi learned that she was reported. HR said Yoon Yi had "remarks that made her colleagues feel uncomfortable" and asked him to go home to work for two consecutive days. Then on October 7, Yoon Yi learned that she was fired.
According to Tencent News "Permitive", Facebook's HR said in the phone call to Yin Yi, the reason for his expulsion was that accepted media interviews without the company's permission, deliberately concealed the facts of accepting interviews with other media, and the remarks in the office caused discomfort among colleagues.
On Yin Yi's personal LinkedIn, he also updated his status and said that he had been fired.
According to Southern Metropolis Daily, Yin Yi has entrusted his case with Facebook to Zheng Qiaojing, a lawyer in Shengfutong, and Zheng lawyer in the United States. Zheng lawyer in the United States will represent Chen Qin and his two cases at the same time.
When talking about the next job, Yin Yi said: "I plan to start looking for it next week. After everyone knows about my matter, there have been invitations on LinkedIn, and there are almost more than a thousand. Through this incident, many friends who have not been in contact before have been contacted, and many high school classmates have also begun to interact again."
Chen Qin suspected that he committed suicide because he was bullied by his boss
On September 23, Patrick Shyu, a former Japanese-American technical director at Facebook who had just left, told the whole story through Youtube video, saying that Chen Qin worked day and night during his lifetime, or chose to commit suicide due to performance appraisal and expulsion.
Shyu posted "Suicide of Facebook Employees" on his personal channel TechLead, telling the harsh working environment of Facebook
Picture from Chen Qin Facebook account
In the video, Shyu criticized the company's vicious competition culture and the high pressure to accompany it, believing that " Chen Qin's boss did not keep his promise, but gave him an unsatisfactory rating in the latest quarterly rating. Such a low rating prevented him from changing groups. If is not replaced into a group, Chen Qin will be placed in the PIP (to be worked hard) project, which means he is likely to be fired. and he does not have a green card, but only holds a work visa, so his legal identity in the United States is also in danger."
Shyu He also said: "Although I didn't want to talk about this, Facebook employees came to me and hoped that I could speak on their behalf because they have been banned by the company's management."
Shyu was a software engineer at Google and Facebook. He is currently a YouTube celebrity. He mainly produces videos that reveal the inside story of programmers' lives and currently has more than 500,000 subscribers. He said that his source is Blind, a well-known company's anonymous forum. He can hide his identity by speaking and commenting as long as the email address of the company's employees can prove their identity.
Silicon Valley How much pressure are programmers?
There is no doubt that in Silicon Valley, the "crown jewel" of the global Internet industry, employees here are often favored by companies and enjoy various attractive benefits, ranging from high salaries, bonuses and equity to free catering, massages, internal health clubs and international tourism.
However, all this pampering comes at a price. Some software engineers complained about their lives on the Q&A website Quora.
A Google website stability engineer starts work at 9 a.m. every day, leaves the company at 7 p.m. every afternoon, and then works overtime until 10 p.m. after returning home. He needs to be alert at all times because he must respond to the problem page within 5 minutes.
"Every day at 7 o'clock in the afternoon, bringing a backpack and a fully charged laptop. If I receive a message of a web page failure on the road, I have to park immediately and log in to the system to troubleshoot the problem within 5 minutes. If I receive a fault warning message through the email, I can wait until I get home before processing."
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Some engineers say that the work itself often contains some unreasonable expectations. "We are under great pressure ( is nervous for deadlines, a lot of backlog of work, and the fear of failure when performing important tasks). If your manager is not a software engineer, then you will be under greater pressure. Some companies want you to work overtime for free. "
In 2015, it was reported that a 50-year-old employee from Google X, a famous Google R&D team, suddenly fainted while conducting drone testing. According to his colleagues, "He fell to the ground, his body trembled violently, as if he was trying to crawl." The incident was captured by the live camera. Because the test site is remote, after calling the ambulance, colleagues drove to the closest location that could be connected to the ambulance at the fastest speed possible.Finally, the employee was taken to a local hospital where he was hospitalized for observation.
It is said that these employees of have to work 10 to 12 hours a day, and the body burden is very heavy. They had previously complained to their supervisors about the harsh working environment, but their requests were largely ignored.
Later, although the employee recovered his health, his work at Google was greatly affected. After two months off, he requested to transfer to a position or other department on the Google X team that was less physically burdened. However, he was assigned to the field again, and even his position was lowered, and he was eventually forced to leave the company.
Source: Daily Economic News (nbdnews) Comprehensive China Daily (Reporter: Chang Jun), Beijing News Our Video, Global Times, Southern Metropolis Daily, Tencent News "Ciwan" (Author: Ji Zhenyu)
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