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Fired from Meta After 1 Week: Here's All the Dirt I Got

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Re: Fired from Meta After 1 Week: Here's All the Dirt I Got

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throw_pm23 wrote: post #8

Joke aside, I've known many people throughout the years who ended up at one of the big tech companies. All very ambitious and smart people, very diverse. Only those that went to Facebook (Meta, whatever) all seem to have a certain personality trait (hard to pin down exactly, I would even cautiously say, some small aspect of their psychological makeup missing or mildly broken, but definitely the same among all people…

In this economy, I wouldn’t judge anyone who takes an offer at Meta if it means they can secure a home and a financial future for themselves. That’s a once in a lifetime opportunity for most people.

I have worked in all kinds of fields and you might be surprised to hear that the most openly psychopathic leadership I have ever experienced was in EDU

Meta may draw a certain type of person, but let’s not kid ourselves that they have a uniquely terrible culture. Just maybe one of the more influential.

Re: Fired from Meta After 1 Week: Here's All the Dirt I Got

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Post by mingus88 »

stevage wrote: post #6

Ehh, it got silly quickly.

The idea that you could blackmail an Meta interviewer for the crime of using Meta’s own product, at work, for work purposes was a bit of a stretch

Then the whole thing came apart entirely when they were able to do anything productive at all in their first week at a huge tech company. I’d be shocked if they could even get access to the source code during onboarding.

Re: Fired from Meta After 1 Week: Here's All the Dirt I Got

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Post by magic_smoke_ee »

msephton wrote: post #3

Very amusing! Onion-level satirical tech commentary.

Indeed. Meta conducts most SWE/PE/SE interviews over VC (Zoom or similar) using CoderPad (which supports all sorts of languages), with unofficial prep using HackerRank. The language for the interview is set in advance by the candidate because the code is never executed directly but is mentally-parsed by the interviewer. (CoderPad is used only as a shared text editor.) Picking a random, obscure programming language would be frowned-upon and not possible. Also, the bootcamp process lasts longer than a week and it would neigh impossible to be fired before that without doing something really egregious because, by that point, each party would have too much time and money invested to simply call it quits randomly.

Maybe instead of making up creative falsehoods, they could just speak simply without whipping the village idiot for approbation.

Re: Fired from Meta After 1 Week: Here's All the Dirt I Got

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Post by stevage »

mingus88 wrote: post #12
stevage wrote: post #6

Ehh, it got silly quickly.

The idea that you could blackmail an Meta interviewer for the crime of using Meta’s own product, at work, for work purposes was a bit of a stretch Then the whole thing came apart entirely when they were able to do anything productive at all in their first week at a huge tech company. I’d be shocked if they could even get access to the source code during onboarding.

Well, also the idea that you would get hired at Meta after a single interview.
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