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Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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Post by neon_electro »

scarmig wrote: post #263
beckingz wrote: post #6

Layoffs time: move quickly and break people.

If it's likely you'll need layoffs, it's probably best to move as quickly as possible. Otherwise gossip, speculation, and fear have the chance to dominate.

Just in case you didn't recognize the reference - an early Facebook cultural motto is the phrase "move fast and break things" - a tradeoff favoring product development iteration speed over stable infrastructure.

Facebook would then change their motto in 2014 to "move fast with stable infrastructure" [0] - don't know how well that's worked out for them since.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms#cite_ref-43

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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Post by BeetleB »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #311
BeetleB wrote: post #208

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> We had to solve binary and hex division and multiplication on paper for exams This is not ... hard. It's the same logic as decimal multiplication/division on paper. > study Dijkstra's algoritm and binary tree traversal in highschool CS That's more like it!

>This is not ... hard. It's the same logic as decimal multiplication/division on paper. Do you really think tests where you gotta solve several divisions and multiplications on paper in hex and binary with no aids under time pressure is approachable for every 11 year old who just starts to learn about CS? It's good to learn and know how such operations are done, but those tests were the bane of my 11 year old childho…

I wouldn't call 11 years old as "high school".

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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Post by dessant »

stale2002 wrote: post #506
dessant wrote: post #477

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I think you're the one who's attacking users here. Asking why someone would join a company is not an attack, even if I have my reservations about the company, and I had no plans to further interact with them, but probably continue to have my opinions about their choice, unless they make a compelling argument. My question was not made in bad faith, but insinuated to be a bad faith question by a different user, though…

You know you basically already admitting to acting in bad faith right? You said this: "And why should my question be in good faith?". This is you basically admitting that it was all in bad faith in the first place, because, it is an attempt to justify it, by effectively questioning why your question should be asked in good faith in the first place.

I think you're reading the least charitable interpretation into my comments. The question was not asked in bad faith, but genuine surprise, while I'm also bothered by people acting as if a Meta employee could not be called out. You can be offended by the matter of an allegation being framed as something bad, and also not commit the alleged act.

For example an Amazon employee could be bothered by their union related question being perceived as critique, while also seeing no issue with someone condemning Amazon for their illegal union busting, and general disregard for the safety and well being of their warehouse staff.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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Post by stale2002 »

dessant wrote: post #513
stale2002 wrote: post #506

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know you basically already admitting to acting in bad faith right? You said this: "And why should my question be in good faith?". This is you basically admitting that it was all in bad faith in the first place, because, it is an attempt to justify it, by effectively questioning why your question should be asked in good faith in the first place.

I think you're reading the least charitable interpretation into my comments. The question was not asked in bad faith, but genuine surprise, while I'm also bothered by people acting as if a Meta employee could not be called out. You can be offended by the matter of an allegation being framed as something bad, and also not commit the alleged act. For example an Amazon employee could be bothered by their union related q…

> The question was not asked in bad faith

Ok, so you agree that you should not ask questions in bad faith, and then when you later said "And why should my question be in good faith?", well that was a dumb question.

Glad I finally got you to the point of saying that we shouldn't ask people questions in bad faith, to attack them.

Just say what mean, and don't do this roundabout way of attacking people, with a flame-bait question.

And if you already agree that we should not ask people bad faith questions, then you saying "And why should my question be in good faith?" is bad faith itself, because you already know that we shouldn't do that.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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Post by dominotw »

loeg wrote: post #214
dominotw wrote: post #201

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I got 3 hards only 6 months ago. How do you know what they are asking 'for years' do you have access to their questions or something.

I am familiar with Meta's interviewing policy, which proscribes LC "hard" type problems. I don't know the contents of every single interview, obviously. Your interviewer(s) violated explicit policy if you were given LC hards.

your interviewers gone rogue theory is hard to accept. Many many people have consistently been getting 'LC hards `for years`.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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Post by dangus »

wikfwikf wrote: post #451
dangus wrote: post #366

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Exactly what I’m saying. I clicked or expanded something out of momentary curiosity. Maybe the ad was provocative or mysterious and I wanted to see what the deal was. Step two, I get retargeted. That’s fine and expected. Step three, I get retargeted. Again. And again…and again. What I don’t understand is how Meta/Instagram can’t figure out at least a little bit sooner that I was clearly just satisfying my curiosity a…

People complain about this all the time. It is annoying, but it's not illogical. If you have looked at something once, say there's a 99% chance that you have no further interest in it. But the 1% chance that you are potentially going to buy it after being shown the ad again is still much better odds than showing it to a random person, or a random person who is somehow correlated to the target market. Even after seein…

It definitely isn't some big problem that bothers me at all.

I do wonder if advertisers can turn that behavior off and/or limit the number of times their product is shown to the same person.

I also wonder if Meta has some kind of model that's predicting post-impression interest.

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Post by dessant »

stale2002 wrote: post #514
dessant wrote: post #513

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you're reading the least charitable interpretation into my comments. The question was not asked in bad faith, but genuine surprise, while I'm also bothered by people acting as if a Meta employee could not be called out. You can be offended by the matter of an allegation being framed as something bad, and also not commit the alleged act. For example an Amazon employee could be bothered by their union related q…

> The question was not asked in bad faith Ok, so you agree that you should not ask questions in bad faith, and then when you later said "And why should my question be in good faith?", well that was a dumb question. Glad I finally got you to the point of saying that we shouldn't ask people questions in bad faith, to attack them. Just say what mean, and don't do this roundabout way of attacking people, with a flame-bai…

No, I don't think any method of direct or indirect questioning is bad in this context, while you have a problem with both a roundabout and a direct critique of someone's employment choice, be it Meta or Amazon. You said it yourself that I should be direct in my critique so that I hopefully get deplatformed.

Find a less harmful employer instead of projecting your insecurities into someone's question, and trying to silence critique of any kind to ease your conscience.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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Post by ethbr0 »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #488
ethbr0 wrote: post #479

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While that may be true today , that's where future doctors, nurses, teachers, and various workers and engineers come from. Young people + a functioning and accessible education system is what produces highly skilled workers.

In an ideal world maybe. In the real word, what you hope for was definitely not the result of Europe's uncontrolled immigration policies. If you want future doctors, nurses, etc, you need to to select for those through a points based immigration system like the US, Canada, Australia, etc. are doing instead of letting all the chancers in who are willing to pay smugglers and cheat the asylum system and hope they'll the…

You seem very angry about welfare and immigration of people without skills. We have very different opinions about what makes a country strong.

I'd point out that in all your replies in this subtree, you're essentially making the same point.

And if you're making the same point, you're not really thinking about what you're replying to: you could be replying to a wall for all intents and purposes.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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Post by ethbr0 »

caskstrength wrote: post #487
ethbr0 wrote: post #484

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They wouldn't receive offensive arms, until they did. They wouldn't receive HIMARS, until they did. They wouldn't receive fighter aircraft, until they did. The only red lines on material escalation seem to be around ATACMS. I'd expect MBTs and A-10s by next spring, with training over winter.

So you are saying that they are not even close to being all-in but may still do it some time in the future? Okay then.

Escalation is a process, not a single act.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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Post by stale2002 »

dessant wrote: post #517
stale2002 wrote: post #514

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> The question was not asked in bad faith Ok, so you agree that you should not ask questions in bad faith, and then when you later said "And why should my question be in good faith?", well that was a dumb question. Glad I finally got you to the point of saying that we shouldn't ask people questions in bad faith, to attack them. Just say what mean, and don't do this roundabout way of attacking people, with a flame-bai…

No, I don't think any method of direct or indirect questioning is bad in this context, while you have a problem with both a roundabout and a direct critique of someone's employment choice, be it Meta or Amazon. You said it yourself that I should be direct in my critique so that I hopefully get deplatformed. Find a less harmful employer instead of projecting your insecurities into someone's question, and trying to sil…

> No

Cool, so as I suspected, you support engaging in bad faith, and asking bad faith questions.

Just say that from the very beginning if that is your opinion. Not sure why you would do this song and dance of denial, if this is just what you believe.

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