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Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
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Re: Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
#12They pay 250k for someone with 2yoe. And have benefits better than 99 percent of companies (likely more than 99 percent honestly).
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And, a properly defined career ladder. Competitive stock refreshers and bonuses. Varied projects.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
#13Interesting problems (not too many places you can do stuff at that kind of scale/impact), very pleasant environment within the company, and yes, money too. And there are a few who come precisely because of those troubles, to make things better instead of standing in a glass house throwing stones.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
#14Because some support FB's mission of giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together?
Why majority thinks that everything what FB does is necessarily bad? It's not true at all and plainly evil propaganda.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
#15A lot of the issues are perceived to be overblown - and in more cases than HN would like to admit, they indeed are overblown. Quite a few double standards are being applied to Facebook by the media-industrial complex and the uninformed. On the other hand, Facebook has stumbled a lot on their own and deserve a significant portion of the criticism they get. It's a nuanced topic and isn't as simple as "FB bad, pls delet…
...and to hell with minor, uninteresting and not cutting-edge issues like impact on society.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
#16A lot of the issues are perceived to be overblown - and in more cases than HN would like to admit, they indeed are overblown. Quite a few double standards are being applied to Facebook by the media-industrial complex and the uninformed. On the other hand, Facebook has stumbled a lot on their own and deserve a significant portion of the criticism they get. It's a nuanced topic and isn't as simple as "FB bad, pls delet…
Destroying a society, addicting people/kids, violating privacy, generating inequality consequences -- interesting large scale problems indeed -- FB is working on CAUSING them. REALLY smart people wouldn't do this.
But then, who cares if you make big money. For allowing this the US deserves everything it gets.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
#17Because some support FB's mission of giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together? Why majority thinks that everything what FB does is necessarily bad? It's not true at all and plainly evil propaganda.
Oh, please, you can't be that gullible to believe Zuckerberg's marketing -- a guy who sued 300 people to build his Hawaii mansion.
With people like you no wonder he gets away with all his crap.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
#18Because money trumps ethics in our society, and Facebook still looks like a good career move.
But there will be a tipping point soon (next 12 months) when FB stock price begins to legit crash after another scandal finally breaks the camel's back. Hasn't happened yet with the FTC fine, but it will come. When their valuation is no longer up and to the right, the hiring situation will change dramatically.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
#19A lot of the issues are perceived to be overblown - and in more cases than HN would like to admit, they indeed are overblown. Quite a few double standards are being applied to Facebook by the media-industrial complex and the uninformed. On the other hand, Facebook has stumbled a lot on their own and deserve a significant portion of the criticism they get. It's a nuanced topic and isn't as simple as "FB bad, pls delet…
Destroying a society, addicting people/kids, violating privacy, generating inequality consequences -- interesting large scale problems indeed -- FB is working on CAUSING them. REALLY smart people wouldn't do this. But then, who cares if you make big money. For allowing this the US deserves everything it gets.
This is the kind of rhetoric that people shut out. It doesn't work.
Facebook is many things, and has many effects on society. Not all of them are good and in some cases cause active harm but not all of them are bad and in some cases do active good. I think most people agree with this assessment if they're being intellectually honest.
And from there, we can try to identify what aspects are extremely problematic and potential solutions to curb the downside risks.
But the point of your rhetoric seems to be because you want to drive a specific agenda or viewpoint. Everything you said could equally apply to Television, Hollywood, or even Radio and those same arguments were made during the advent of those media too. It's just not interesting rhetoric to engage with.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
#20A lot of the issues are perceived to be overblown - and in more cases than HN would like to admit, they indeed are overblown. Quite a few double standards are being applied to Facebook by the media-industrial complex and the uninformed. On the other hand, Facebook has stumbled a lot on their own and deserve a significant portion of the criticism they get. It's a nuanced topic and isn't as simple as "FB bad, pls delet…
...and to hell with minor, uninteresting and not cutting-edge issues like impact on society.
Or, alternatively: moderation at global scale with billions of pieces of content per day is an incredibly difficult, challenging, interesting, and impactful problem to work on and requires a lot of new technology.
If you can reduce abusive patterns of misinformation on Facebook by a few percent, that's a huge win for both the company and for the billions of people affected by the service - by extension, society.
This is likely the other side of the argument.