Facebook is seeking passionate engineers to identify, advise, investigate and mitigate privacy violations and/or exposures in our products. Your skills will be the foundation for understanding privacy risks in Facebook initiatives by being the technical advocate for privacy decisions and discussions across the company. You will be relied upon to provide engineering and product teams with the privacy expertise necessary to make confident product decisions.
We are seeking both individual contributor and managers.
I am an engineering manager in the same organization. I support a related team that helps people find security flaws faster with static analysis. I am happy to answer questions about what it's like to work in security and privacy at Facebook. My email is dmolnar -at- fb.com . Twitter is @dmolnar and DMs are open.
There were at least two programs when I was there. I heard a lot more about them under Ballmer than under Satya.
HiPo -- for junior to mid level -- special training, networking, and seminars. MiniMSFT comments section mentions this from time to time.
Bench -- for mid to later career, usually on the way to "partner" or above level -- same as HiPo, but may be asked to work on a project with others in Bench, may see attention from VPs mentoring the group.
Neither one had any official impact on ratings, rewards, or career velocity. What they did do, however, was establish an elite and help that elite network across the company.
Microsoft (Security Risk Detection in AI & Research) | Senior Developer | Redmond, WA | ONSITE | Full-Time
Microsoft Security Risk Detection brings pioneering Microsoft technology for analyzing the risk from "million dollar" bugs to everyone, wrapped up in a scalable cloud service for security testing. Customers come to Microsoft Security Risk Detection to scale security assurance processes without sacrificing speed of execution. We help customers be the best they can be at analyzing the risk from insecure software so they can do more of what they love. Learn more about the service at https://www.microsoft.com/msrd.
We are looking for a talented software engineer with strong technical skills and smooth team collaboration skills to join a small team of developers working in a fast-paced environment. This position is for a highly motivated and passionate engineer who can work autonomously and provide consistent engineering execution. You will be responsible for the technical execution and overall quality for our fuzzing workflow on Linux. This entails improving the existing offering to adapt to customers’ needs as well as implementing new scenarios.
As part of the Microsoft AI + Research organization, Microsoft Security Risk Detection is creating value for customers from cutting edge Microsoft research. Our organization is working tirelessly as one to democratize access to artificial intelligence technologies that are changing the world.
Want to learn more? feel free to email me: dmolnar (at) microsoft.com . I lead the group. I am also happy to answer questions about what it's like at Microsoft generally or AI & Research specifically.
This is valuable advice. The supervisor is absolutely the most important consideration. It is worth pointing out two things that are different in many U.S. universities.
1) PhDs in the U.S. in CS take between 3-10 years to finish. Less if you are in theory and have a strong set of results off the bat that align around a single area. More if you need to build something with a long cycle time, such as create a new architecture and build a chip.
The first 2-3 years will have classes and feel a little like undergrad. After that it transitions into the free-form research as the post describes. Unlike in the U.K., typically you do not have a hard stop at 4 years, and you can find teaching assistantships or other sources of funding to keep going a year or two at a time.
The good news is that you have more time with relative freedom. The bad news is depending on your advisor, it is easy to drift for years without making much progress.
2) In all the U.S. universities I know, the standard state is for you to be employed by the university as a teaching assistant or a "graduate student researcher." This has impact on intellectual property. For example, the University of California used to ask and may still ask all employees to sign a "Loyalty Oath and Patent Assignment Agreement."
(Disclosure: Microsoft employee writing this on a Surface with Touch Cover)
Check out the Samsung Series 7 slate. 128GB SSD, 4GB RAM, core i5. 11.6 inches and a little less than 2 lbs. Unfortunately I don't know where you could find one in person to play with. I've been using it with Win8 for a bit and quite liked it -- with the dock and a keyboard you can run Visual Studio just fine.
Exec differentiates on up front pricing ($25/hr), fast fulfillment (within 10 minutes), and on positioning toward executive assistant services. There's an interesting comparison table to be made with columns like "number of active workers," "geographic regions covered," "pricing model," "top 5 tasks" etc.
There's also craigslist, of course, which is highly liquid and has high reach. Craigslist doesn't have a great experience, though, for hiring people.
Yes. One of the clever touches of the TaskRabbit web site is that every task has a unique URL that facilitates sharing stories like this. You can even push a button on the page to "use this task as a template."
Could you hire people on www.taskrabbit.com to go pick things up for you? You'd have to probably pay them on retainer to get the responsiveness you need, but it's a way to recruit in different cities.
I've seen people post "Stand in line for me at the DMV" on TaskRabbit. I haven't tracked how many tasks, but it would be interesting to see growth over time. I wonder how that compares to the specialized services.
Another bit that leapt out for me is his discussion of displays. He's talking about flatscreen color displays, about 15-20 years before they really become commonplace.
My favorite is the end, where he talks about how belief and momentum influence the investment into different technologies. Makes you wonder what technologies have been "coming soon" for the last decade, but are just waiting for someone to come in and spend the required amount to pull them off.
Checking David Heckerman's web page shows this paper from October 2011 in the Journal of Virology. I don't know how it relates to the news article specifically but it's interesting if you'd like to follow this stream of work.
I can't seem to reply directly to adambrault. Just to expand on why I asked about MS Paint adventures. The aesthetic is similar -- although of course &! is about productivity instead of kids playing a most dangerous game, the emphasis on awesomeness, the suspense, etc. are shared.
It's wonderful that you have "give us feedback" as one of the initial tasks in the first team created. It's less wonderful that there is no obvious way to give you that feedback. Five minutes in and already I'm falling behind on shipping!
On a different note: I actually need to recruit people I don't previously know to my team. Would it be possible to add a landing page for a team that signs up the person and then auto-ads them to that team. This would have a hard-to-guess URL, so I would have confidence that only people I recruited (or their friends) would show up.
Facebook is seeking passionate engineers to identify, advise, investigate and mitigate privacy violations and/or exposures in our products. Your skills will be the foundation for understanding privacy risks in Facebook initiatives by being the technical advocate for privacy decisions and discussions across the company. You will be relied upon to provide engineering and product teams with the privacy expertise necessary to make confident product decisions.
We are seeking both individual contributor and managers.
The job description for individual contributors https://www.facebook.com/careers/v2/jobs/442604633040190/
For managers https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/2317996711826538/
I am an engineering manager in the same organization. I support a related team that helps people find security flaws faster with static analysis. I am happy to answer questions about what it's like to work in security and privacy at Facebook. My email is dmolnar -at- fb.com . Twitter is @dmolnar and DMs are open.