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On the other hand, I would personally find some sanctimonious interviewer asking me to defend my previous employment history from a perceived position of moral superiority a great screening tool for companies I would never want to work for.
If it's a moral issue with a company you've worked for, you won't get the chance to defend yourself in front of a sanctimonious interviewer; you'll get screened before that point.
What's the situation in their other offices, like UK, Europe, and Canada?
Pardon me if this is a stupid question, but could it be true that their morally questionable decisions happen at their headquarters, rather than at their Dublin office for instance?
Is the problems with Facebook only a big problem at their Menlo Park, or American offices? What's the situation in their other offices, like UK, Europe, and Canada? Pardon me if this is a stupid question, but could it be true that their morally questionable decisions happen at their headquarters, rather than at their Dublin office for instance?
It's like saying is it ok to work at HR of Phillip Morris, because I'm not involved directly in selling cigarettes.
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I don't know, I think if you're interested in VR/AR, wearables, computer vision, building products for the "creator" generation, or even crypto (Novi) then FB/Meta probably has the best work pitch of all the FAANGs.
Sorry to go a bit meta . I can't help but notice that a reply to comment that mentions F1, is from a user handle named Jensen Button. As long as it isn't GPT-3... (:
Is the problems with Facebook only a big problem at their Menlo Park, or American offices? What's the situation in their other offices, like UK, Europe, and Canada? Pardon me if this is a stupid question, but could it be true that their morally questionable decisions happen at their headquarters, rather than at their Dublin office for instance?
I don't get the distinction. It's like saying is it ok to work at HR of Phillip Morris, because I'm not involved directly in selling cigarettes.
Never been anywhere near these places, so, yeah. Pardon me.
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> Are these candidates truly incapable of doing the job, or are the understanding of what the job entails misunderstood by everyone involved? On the other hand, is something wrong in how software engineers are educated to cause this surplus of incompetents? Does there need to be better training in this industry? Yes, yes, yes, and yes. Pretty confident that the lack of in-house training has been mostly facilitated by…
I wanted to say that this echoes my experience perfectly. After interviewing several hundreds of people, two surprising things stood out: - a large percentage of technical applicants cannot program even in languages where they claim multiple years of work experience - this holds true for non-technical applicants too I think this is a combination of poor applicants being overrepresented in the applicant pool (good one…
Massive lying and resume inflation? Performance anxiety leading to bombing interviews? Maybe the roles they were in didn’t actually require as much programming, or deep understanding of programming as people would expect?
It could just be that a massive amount of work in the software industry is really code monkey work. “Gluing together APIs.” Refactoring existing code. All things that can be accomplished by referring to Stack Overflow copypasta or the existing codebase itself without requiring the coder to have any deep independent understanding of the code or the language they claim to know.
And, if that gets the job done- how high should engineering standards even be if so much of the work is menial? Either able to be outsourced, or one day Autopiloted away?
Is the problems with Facebook only a big problem at their Menlo Park, or American offices? What's the situation in their other offices, like UK, Europe, and Canada? Pardon me if this is a stupid question, but could it be true that their morally questionable decisions happen at their headquarters, rather than at their Dublin office for instance?
I don't get the distinction. It's like saying is it ok to work at HR of Phillip Morris, because I'm not involved directly in selling cigarettes.
Is that happening only at their headquarters, or is it happening globally across all their offices?
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I assume they genuinely struggle with recruiting. Getting cold recruiting mails from FB lately despite being on the wrong continent. They must be scraping the bottom.
Even though a lot of FAANG (or MANGA) companies are in need of tech talent, good luck getting in unless you have some serious time to allocate to studying Leetcode problems. While this time investment will help you get in the door to such places, it's unlikely to make you a better programmer or help you at all in your current role.
Is the problems with Facebook only a big problem at their Menlo Park, or American offices? What's the situation in their other offices, like UK, Europe, and Canada? Pardon me if this is a stupid question, but could it be true that their morally questionable decisions happen at their headquarters, rather than at their Dublin office for instance?
Cultural differences in conflict, negotiation, and corporate drive can make this more or less stressful for the managers and as a result for the employees. As such, you can predict more stress in the US and less in Europe+Canada. The Irish office for example is a bit more laid back but also can be more passive aggressive.
Per decision making around immoral things, all those decisions happened in the US when I worked there.
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I assume they genuinely struggle with recruiting. Getting cold recruiting mails from FB lately despite being on the wrong continent. They must be scraping the bottom.
> on the wrong continent. Afiak they're about to open (extend?) a new office in London, not sure if that's related or not. When one of my friends told me that (he works for a FAANG company) I had a similar reaction to yours: "Where are they going to get the people for that in this market?"