With all repeated issues the company is suffering with their product strategy, software quality, privacy issues, executive retention, etc., why are people still eager to join the company?
Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
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Re: Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
#2$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
I mean really it shouldn't be surprising, they pay really well.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
#3Because they get first pick of the good interns and they're still better than a couple of the other big places to work for.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
#4When you get paid $200k/yr right out of college, who's complaining?
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#5Because people like money
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#6Also lots of people aren't paying attention to that stuff.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
#7Because they're not suffering with their product strategy, software quality, privacy issues, or executive retention.
Don't believe what you read in the news.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
#8I know a lot of senior data people (read: high demand tech people) applying there right now. A few things:
1. People who work there are generally happy. Interesting problems to work on, a company where tech is respected, etc.
2. A lot of those issues you list are common in big tech, see Google. The people I know who are looking at Facebook may want to work at a bigger, more stable company.
3. As everyone else mentions, $$$. That said, Finance also pays similar rates but I don't see a lot of people fighting for those roles, so that doesn't fully explain it IMO.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
#9Because of money obviously. If someone is out of a job for a month, especially if they don't have "deep" savings, they'll take the first or highest offer they get.
Also, how do you know they aren't having a harder time hiring?
Re: Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
#10A lot of the issues are perceived to be overblown - and in more cases than HN would like to admit, they indeed are overblown.
Quite a few double standards are being applied to Facebook by the media-industrial complex and the uninformed. On the other hand, Facebook has stumbled a lot on their own and deserve a significant portion of the criticism they get. It's a nuanced topic and isn't as simple as "FB bad, pls delete".
Facebook also has an extremely talented employee base and they pay industry-high salaries while also doing cutting edge work.
Smart people want to work with other smart people on interesting large-scale problems.