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Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

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Re: Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

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Post by nobleach »

shmatt wrote: post #11

if you've ever been through a Meta loop (and their method is to cast an extremely wide net, so chances are you have), you've seen how inefficient their loop can be for long term success 6-7 38* minute interviews, while the interviewee is trying to squeeze in showcasing their skills and experience, the interviewer is obsessed with figuring out a rigid set of pre-determined "signals" Once these candidates actually star…

That wasn't my experience at all. I had a recruiter screen where she asked me some technical questions. I then had a longer discussion, then a code screen, then an arch-deep-dive. The entire process was very professional and EVERY person came off like they really wanted me to succeed. (Sure it's an act but it's a very helpful act when you're in the hot seat)

My intervews were in 20202/2021. Perhaps things have changed?

Re: Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

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Post by oblio »

oytis wrote: post #14
krapp wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>All the more reason why we need workplace democracy. The elites clearly do not know how to run a business and the economy is the final frontier for democracy to expand into. One might almost say workers should... own the means of production?

Every programmer owns the means of code production (unless they forgot how to code without Claude). Turns out it's not necessarily enough to make money.

Code production is not code distribution nor code advertisement, nor code marketing in general, etc.

Re: Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

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Post by shmatt »

nobleach wrote: post #21
shmatt wrote: post #11

if you've ever been through a Meta loop (and their method is to cast an extremely wide net, so chances are you have), you've seen how inefficient their loop can be for long term success 6-7 38* minute interviews, while the interviewee is trying to squeeze in showcasing their skills and experience, the interviewer is obsessed with figuring out a rigid set of pre-determined "signals" Once these candidates actually star…

That wasn't my experience at all. I had a recruiter screen where she asked me some technical questions. I then had a longer discussion, then a code screen, then an arch-deep-dive. The entire process was very professional and EVERY person came off like they really wanted me to succeed. (Sure it's an act but it's a very helpful act when you're in the hot seat) My intervews were in 20202/2021. Perhaps things have change…

You had interviews scheduled longer than 45 minutes?

Re: Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

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Post by oytis »

oblio wrote: post #22
oytis wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every programmer owns the means of code production (unless they forgot how to code without Claude). Turns out it's not necessarily enough to make money.

Code production is not code distribution nor code advertisement, nor code marketing in general, etc.

Yeah, that's the thing. You need the whole business to turn code into money, and you need this business to be run well, and either do what people with big money want it to do or to make lots of people with small money pay for its product regularly. Either way, it's not what autonomous programmer commune will do well in my opinion
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