Facebook recruiting and Unix systems

Post by cabalamat » Thu, Sep 07, 2017, 8:21 AM UTC

wrs wrote: post #226

aspyrx wrote: post #128

Hey folks, I'm the student writing the emails in the post here. Thanks to everyone for their criticisms. While I was initially kind of shocked by the recruiter's response, I've had a lot of time to think about it today and have realized that I was being pretty damn condescending and spoke out of line without regards to the context. It's been a hard lesson learned. I honestly regret the whole exchange, and posting it…

Here's the sad fact: If I were a hiring manager at Facebook and saw your post, I would slap my forehead in frustration in complete empathy with you. That recruiter is not only clueless, but shows a nearly bot-like level of comprehension of the subject they're supposedly recruiting for, which I personally find quite rude on their part. Then, because I'm at Facebook , I would just move on, because honestly anything tha…

Post by bonzini » Thu, Sep 07, 2017, 8:26 AM UTC

aspyrx wrote: post #160

Spooky23 wrote: post #139

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If you're looking for someone who has actual high level expertise working on AIX or FreeBSD, having some dude tell you that Linux is the same as Unix or asserting that knowing what POSIX means is equivalent to having production knowledge of AIX/FreeBSD for a production engineering role is not very productive. The recruiter handled himself professionally and should be commended for not being bullied. Mr. Zhang sounds…

I'm going to leave the image up. It's regrettable, but for accountability's sake I don't want to run away from my mistakes. And yeah - I think it boils down to their having strict requirements and large applicant volume, so my response definitely wasn't appropriate there.

Post by kowdermeister » Thu, Sep 07, 2017, 8:27 AM UTC

TheMagicHorsey wrote: post #271

jdavis703 wrote: post #9

This is not the right attitude to bring in to the workplace. You'll have a range of people from executives, to clients to co-workers in other departments who don't know what UNIX, APIs and POSIX are. If you can't communicate technical matters nicely then you have not yet developed the right attitude for a professional working environment. It's the same thing with doctors when they create metaphors to explain complica…

Nothing in that guy's email was rude or unprofessional. Is just communicating a fact politely, "not nice"?

Post by arkadiytehgraet » Thu, Sep 07, 2017, 8:32 AM UTC

Kluny wrote: post #326

arkadiytehgraet wrote: post #314

I don't understand why you felt necessary to leave out the recruiter name. I personally would really like to know this person and try to avoid her/him by all means possible, saving me (and all the others, who will know him) a ton of time and consequently punishing this recruiter for his incompetence and inability to learn the actual thing he is recruiting for. We (developers) want the recruiting, interviewing and hir…

Doxxing/outing people here is probably against site rules, and if it's not, it's still unprofessional and likely to reflect just as badly on the him as on the recruiter. The recruiter can say to his boss, "shit, I didn't have enough coffee that day!" and be forgiven; Stan won't get the same forgiveness.

Post by provost » Thu, Sep 07, 2017, 8:33 AM UTC

pwdisswordfish wrote: post #334

pwdisswordfish wrote: post #319

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OT, did you actually embed your password in the username to enable random users share it?

Apparently they did...