PS Yandex fired the remains of the old Kinopoisk team for disclosing information

    Contradictory postscript of the story with the failed restart of “Kinopoisk” : the scandal ended with a series of dismissals that affected both responsible and uninvited.


    The week at Yandex turned out to be so-so.

    First it became known about the dismissal (either of their own free will, or of their own free will - who will tell us) the head of Kinopoisk Olga Mansurova and the demotion of Dmitry Stepanov, the head of Yandex media services, to the vacated Mansurova’s post, and it was reported that Yandex had fired from Kinopoisk the remnants of the old team for languages ​​too long an NDA violation.

    As far as I know, the reason was a general chat on Skype, where the former team in critical tones discussed the events of recent days. The guys have repeatedly warned bosses that the new version will be unsuccessful.
    www.facebook.com/tatsiy/posts/10200890217134753 (original spelling)

    According to a Vedomosti source in Yandex, 10 people were dismissed from the company ... The Yandex press service clarified that employees were fired for violating the Non-disclosure agreement (NDA), a non-disclosure agreement for company-important information signed by employees . “The decision to part with some employees was made for violation of the NDA. They divulged to third parties information constituting a trade secret of the company, including data on development and service plans. They were asked to leave the company, ”the Yandex press service said.

    Correspondence itself is not a violation of the NDA, but in the chat in question, apart from Kinopoisk employees, there were also third parties, including former owners of the service, Tatsiy and Dmitry Sukhanov, a source close to Yandex told Vedomosti . “In a chat, employees divulged information protected by the NDA,” he said.
    www.vedomosti.ru/technology/articles/2015/10/15/613027-yandeks-uvolil-sotrudnikov-kinopoiska

    Among this information, it’s obvious - copy-paste spread over quotes with an insider retelling about the development process and the reasons for the new “Kinopoisk” fell, and another copy-paste with a letter from the internal forum offended by the misleading users Svetlana Yavorskaya and names who really should be blamed for what happened - all of a sudden , Mansurova and Stepanova.

    All this spread on the Internet so wide that it was impossible not to notice the drain, Yandex spokeswoman explains :

    Yandex, of course, does not monitor its employees. We found confidential information about the company's plans in open sources, we were forced to look for the reasons for what happened. It turned out that no one was trying to hide, the employees used work computers. In such serious cases, the company has the right to examine information on working devices. It's not about personal correspondence.


    Thus, the reaction of Yandex looks like the following: following the advice of an insider, and punishing those responsible, he then cut down the heads of those who were or could be involved in the discharge of insider information. Let’s be objective, the position of Yandex may be morally faulty, but quite logical: “Snowden, of course, is a hero, but the disclosure of the secrets of the state still remains treason.”

    However, one moment looks strange, if not dumb:

    the security service called everyone and asked for an exit today just because people were present in this chat, even those who did not write a word there

    They are for what - for not being reported?

    Monty Python's Flying Circus


    The humor of the situation is different. Somehow it happened that:

    fired the remains of the old Kinopoisk team, the people who worked there for 5-10 years (admins, programmers, mobile developers, content managers, DB admins, sales). 99% of them were very distant from launching a failed new version. The brilliant developers of the new version remained in Yandex ... They fired people who thoroughly knew the old KP - there are no other such people in Yandex.



    (picture from comments )

    Again, this is logical: why would the team responsible for restarting merge the details of their file into the Internet. Naturally, those who were given the opportunity to say “I told you” were indignant. those who are not involved in the feil, and maybe even foresaw it. It was they who now went in formation to the street (or to the Rambler ).

    It’s just that now “Kinopoisk” is in the reliable hands of people who cannot restart the site, but don’t chat with strangers in the chat.

    PS Bonus GIF: “ We just wanted to restart Kinopoisk

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