Are you a Facebook employee? • Hacker News Board

That's cute but it's not accurate. I interviewed there over two years ago and I appear to be blacklisted, since whenever I look at any of their job descriptions I get this:

"Hey, we have reviewed your application and unfortunately don't have an opening for you."

I can't really square that with "Maybe soon?"

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 8:06 PM UTC

slug wrote: post #62

{"is_fb_employee":"maybe soon? https://www.facebook.com/careers/department.php?dept=enginee... }

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Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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Post by buro9 » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 8:07 PM UTC

nose wrote: post #32

yid wrote: post #5

For what it's worth, I am, and I still get a 0.

Make sure you're logged into facebook. Signed out users always get a 0.

I'm not even on facebook and I get a maybe soon.

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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Post by sciurus » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 8:19 PM UTC

KleinmanB wrote: post #54

bmm6o wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We get it, you guys have seen Office Space. It doesn't contribute positively to the discussion.

The only thing that stands as a non-contribution is your need to publicly proclaim a lack of a sense of humor.

It's occasionally helpful to explain to people why they're being downvoted. Comments that consist of pop culture references usually aren't treated kindly.

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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Post by ry0ohki » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 8:40 PM UTC

csomar wrote: post #64

According to Facebook, I might be soon an employee. {"is_fb_employee":"maybe soon? https://www.facebook.com/careers/department.php?dept=engineering"}

They changed it since this hit the top of Hacker News, I'm REALLY impressed with the speed of rolling something like that out on the fly.

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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Post by spiantino » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 8:49 PM UTC

mitchty wrote: post #53

Jarred wrote: post #51

I think this is_fb_employee variable is to check if they should be running the internal testing version of Facebook. Facebook has a subdomain which, in their offices everyone is redirected to. It's something like 'preview.facebook.com'. It houses the latest testing build of Facebook. This way all the employees are testing Facebook just by being on it, and they have other people testing their new builds for short peri…

Why not just setup a proxy.pac file and proxy all internal ip's to the test domain?

not sure what a .pac file is, but yes, this is how it works.