Are you a Facebook employee? • Hacker News Board

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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Post by swapsmagic » Sat, Aug 06, 2011, 9:30 AM UTC

Ok looks like if the url is referred from Hacker News, then they are displaying, {"is_fb_employee":"maybe soon? https://www.facebook.com/careers/department.php?dept=enginee...}

Even if you are logged out.

I am not an facebook employee so if i just paste the url in address bar and enter it, it shows: is_fb_employee: false with my UID.

If i logged out, it shows UID: 0 with is_fb_employee: false.

It's a nice idea to attract ppl from different site and based on the site domain, give them relevant career page url. (May be an intern project)

So for HN, it's engineering career page, if the referral site is relevant to some other domain (i.e. sales/marketing) then they will give http://www.facebook.com/careers/department.php?dept=sales.

Not sure how much data facebook have of other websites for categorizing majority of the websites in to different domain, but i feel Google can do much better with the same concept.

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

#112

Post by weel » Mon, Aug 08, 2011, 12:34 AM UTC

nbm wrote: post #83

goldmab wrote: post #75

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?"

That sounds like a bug - from what I'm told by a recruiter, you should be able to apply again by now. You can also start the process by emailing the address in the text at the bottom of job once you click on "Apply for this position".

If ever the online recruiting system gives you trouble but you think you ought to be able to apply, send your application to HR by email. (careers@fb.com should do it, I believe) And tell them about the bug too, so they can get it fixed.

Also, if you know somebody who works at Facebook, try to get them to refer you instead of applying directly. (Just email them your resume and ask if they can forward it.) This applies not just to Facebook but to most other big companies, especially popular employers that get a lot of resumes every week. Our recruiters try hard to evaluate all the resumes they receive, but if you guessed that they probably look more closely at ones that reach them by way of an internal referral, I think you guessed correctly.

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

#113

Post by mitchty » Mon, Aug 08, 2011, 2:38 PM UTC

spiantino wrote: post #80

mitchty wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Just a javascript script file that tests for where ip-wise the user originates from and determines if you use a proxy for the site or connect directly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config