Facebook employee says he was fired for speaking out about his colleague's suicide

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A Facebook software engineer told CNBC on Tuesday that he was fired by the company for speaking out about his colleague's suicide last month.

Yi Yin joined Facebook's core growth team in July and he was fired after he participated in a protest demanding justice for Qin Chen, an employee who committed suicide at the company's headquarters on Sept. 19.

Yi Yin joined Facebook's core growth team in July and he was fired after he participated in a protest demanding justice for Qin Chen, an"We need the truth. We need a fair investigation on what on earth had happened,"Yin told CNBC he spoke with the press at the protest because he had heard rumors that Chen may have been an H-1B visa worker and worried about his future after receiving a poor performance review by his superiors.

Yin says he received a final warning letter from HR on Oct. 1. On Oct. 3, he asked his team mentor if the final warning letter meant that he was going to be fired. On Oct. 7, Yin says, he received a call from HR informing him that he was being fired for speaking with the press and for making comments that made his colleague feel uncomfortable.In an email confirming his firing, which CNBC has seen, Facebook also told Yin he would be required to pay back a portion of his sign-on bonus.

Facebook declined to offer further details about Yin's case, saying, "We won't get into the specifics of confidential, internal conversations."

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FB has obviousely internal totalitarian dictatorship about BIAS and 'political correctness'. Horror scenario to imagine, to work for Facebook in silicon valley. You will get sick mentally by the time, I think. A leftist supressed zombie employee. ;-(

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