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The WTF is not about the quality of code, it's that the engineer offered w/o asking the company's IP & secrets and didn't think there was anything wrong it.

It's a frightening insight into the culture of a company where that it is both possible to do that and not thought to be wrong.

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Yeah I agree with what you're saying. But I was talking about this part:

> Needless to say, it definitely made me look at Yik Yak differently.

As I said, that's messed up that the guy thought that way but I don't think it's the company's fault. I can do the same for my employer what this guy did since I have access to a lot of private information, but that's my fault, not the company's fault for trusting their employee.

I suppose the op of the story is saying that the company Yik Yak IS its employees, which, especially for a small company, is pretty true. Isn't a company just === people that work for it?

I really don't know how you reach that conclusion.

This one unethical guy who doesn't even work there anymore, who's not even one of the founders, makes unethical decisions. And suddenly the entire company he used to work for--which really did nothing wrong and has nothing to do with this guy's behavior--is unethical?