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Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal

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Re: Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal

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The general feel I get from most of my engineer friends is that Facebook's product is definitely not inspiring and doesn't "make the world a better place" (whatever that means).

But the consensus is that given the right amount of money, they would all accept an offer from them. And Facebook is known to pay very well.

Re: Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal

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I actively turned down a facebook offer out of college, however, boy does facebook throw money at people who seem to turn a blind eye to online ethics... $$$

Is it possible that ppl who work at facebook have ethics that merely differ from yours?

The same kind of ethics that can justify every terrible action.

As usual if you feel fine and inline with the company's ethic then go for it. I suspect that most engineers and Facebook employee know deep down how shitty the product they build really is.

Re: Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal

#43

Facebook's brand is tainted enough now that smart engineers don't want any of the bleedover into their personal brand that would come from working there. How many engineers, in hiring positions, do you know that have a positive opinion of FB?

Ok but how many engineers use React, yarn, or graphql? Facebook is still leading the way in front end development and it’s still a net positive to have that name on your resume. Their brand isn’t any more tainted than Google, Microsoft, or Amazon.

Open source libraries like React should not be attributed to companies. It just so happened that Jordan Walke worked for FB when he wrote the library.

Its not like any of these companies specifically target creation of such tools as part of their business goals.

Re: Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal

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>Facebook candidates are asking much tougher questions about the company’s approach to privacy, according to multiple former recruiters.

This narrative is highly suspicious.

Zukerberg openly and repeatedly said that he doesn't care about anyone's privacy for well over a decade[1]. The whole company is built around collecting and selling private information. Why would people who care about privacy interview with Facebook in the first place?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/11/facebook-...

Re: Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal

#45

Hmm... the headline is in direct contradiction with what I read on Blind. People are still flocking at Facebook's gate for an offer.

The difference being, the very best, with multiple offers, are choosing another path.

Its like the very best high school students with offers from Harvard, Princeton and Yale- but suddenly Facebook is being treated as if it's Dartmouth or Cornell instead of Princeton and being left with the leavings of the very best instead of having its pick. Still very talented people to be sure, but not the 'best.'

Re: Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal

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If there will be fewer people who go to work at Facebook who care about privacy, that seems like bad news?

I don't think that people who care about privacy could possibly affect what Facebook does by working there.

Why not? Tech firms work collaboratively and even new employees participate in (some) decision-making.

Re: Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal

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This is not a surprising headline. If you have values about privacy, decency, civil discourse, honesty or integrity you wouldn’t want to work there. Also, if you feel the company was collusive or willingly complicit in the dissemination of fake news and Russian propaganda efforts during our elections, it’d be a big fat “no” to working there. And it’s not just our democracy that is undermined by FB. There’s a litany o…

>Also, if you feel the company was collusive or willingly complicit in the dissemination of fake news and Russian propaganda efforts during our elections, it’d be a big fat “no” to working there. And it’s not just our democracy that is undermined by FB Come on. According to FB the IRA had 80000 posts over a two year period. In the same period there were 33 trillion FB posts. What moron still believes this garbage? FB…

How many ads were there? If trillions of messages are needed to influence behavior, then Facebook ads would have no value.
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