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Facebook has just invited me to interview and now I’m pissed off

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Re: Facebook has just invited me to interview and now I’m pissed off

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Post by gaius »

Sorry, but what a self-important buffoon. Slavery? What "value" does FB get from his solution to the puzzle, how is it "work"?!

And by the way, there is nothing at all special about getting an email like this from Facebook, Google, or any of a dozen other firms. They all have industrial-grade recruiting machines and this initial stage is like a trawler scooping up half the ocean. If you post on technical forum or mailing list, or have a LinkedIn profile, it would be more unique not to have been approached.

Re: Facebook has just invited me to interview and now I’m pissed off

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Post by markolschesky »

HR at a large company is not like HR at a small company. Broad strokes have to be taken to make the process manageable at scale while being somewhat fair. Generally speaking, the phone screen comes after any pre-requisite criteria are checked (such as programming competence). Phone screens aren't very useful from an interviewing standpoint anyways; most simply exist to weed out candidates that are non-adjusted or have interests that lie entirely elsewhere (e.g., I only want to work here before I go back for my M.S. in CS in 6 months). They are more for the benefit of the interviewee if the company isn't a household brand; I think you probably already know most things you need to know about Facebook.

Re: Facebook has just invited me to interview and now I’m pissed off

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Post by deniswolf »

10 hours. It's the time I have spent last week for some open-source coding. I was happy to give my time for free to those projects I supported. It's about 10 hours that I have spent with a friend of mine who visited me from other city this week.

I can't imagine spending this time for someone I don't know, someone who never ever bother to talk to me but demanded them.

Few years ago I have spent few days of work planning project with people with whom I had interview - just because I started to like them in 10 minutes of the interview. I ended up working for them for the next few years and some of them are still my close friends.

I could ignore the offer, decline it (as I did) and live on. But if nobody will tell those guys in fat cat corporations that they are wrong - they will continue to think and treat people as "resources", not persons.

You could be ok with that - they do have great salaries, career opportunities etc. But accepting this treatment as a norm is unthought to me. It's not about ego, it's about some tiny respect of a human being for a human being.

Re: Facebook has just invited me to interview and now I’m pissed off

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Post by j_baker »

I don't really like the author's attitude. But there is some truth to it: Working 8-10 hours to get a job at Facebook is crap. I'm a professional with a job and a life. I already have to do phone interviews and in-person interviews, and now you want me to spend 8-10 hours working on a puzzle?
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