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Internal docs show how Facebook calculates the number of engineers needed and how it has struggled to recruit talent, missing recruitment goals in 2019 and 2021

and surprised to see no mention of obvious reputational factors. If you work at FB and have evidence of how the scandals are impacting recruiting (as I hear anecdotally all the time) get in touch. https://twitter.com/... Ian Guider / @ianguider : @william_fitz With a stranglehold on voting shares, why does anyone think there'll be a single repercussion from any of these scandals. Kat Scott / @kscottz : Every decent senior engineer I know has told @Facebook to go fuck themselves. The ones I know who have been hired are either unscrupulous or are in desperate need of a work visa / citizenship and are willing to make a deal with the devil. Don't work at Facebook. https://twitter.com/... Eva / @evacide : When I tell audiences at hacking conferences that"the choices that you make matter," this is what I'm talking about. You don't have to take the job. You don't have to build the machine. And if enough people don't do it, it won't get done. https://twitter.com/... Grady Booch / @grady_booch : Code has moral and ethical implications. Choosing where you write code is a moral and technical choice. Stares at certain people at @facebookai https://twitter.com/...

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  • @anna_c_kramer Anna Kramer on x
    NEW: Facebook is having a super rough time hiring engineers this year. I dug into a leaked hiring memo that details why the first quarter of this year was kind of a kaboom crisis situation https://www.protocol.com/...
  • @grady_booch Grady Booch on x
    Interviewer: “I see you worked at Facebook.” Interviewee: “Correct.” Interviewer: “Why?” https://twitter.com/...
  • @quinnypig @quinnypig on x
    No surprise there; on LinkedIn I have 111 connections who work at @awscloud but zero who work at Facebook. Good people don't work at Facebook in 2021. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
  • @mmalcangio Mike Malcangio on x
    @meganmorrone Interesting - I know quite a few engineers and PMs, myself included, who have told FB's recruiters to not contact them. It's one of the only companies I know of that this topic comes up frequently.
  • @shiringhaffary Shirin Ghaffary on x
    I read through these docs about how FB has been struggling to recruit engineers — and surprised to see no mention of obvious reputational factors. If you work at FB and have evidence of how the scandals are impacting recruiting (as I hear anecdotally all the time) get in touch. h…
  • @davidfowl David Fowler on x
    Today I had a discussion with a friend who was considering Facebook and then he said, “I'm not sure how this would look on my resume” https://twitter.com/...
  • @issielapowsky Issie Lapowsky on x
    “Missing our engineering hiring goals was a big problem, and Mark made it clear he didn't want a repeat performance in 2020.” Internal docs show how Facebook has been struggling to hire engineers. @anna_c_kramer dug in. Full doc at the bottom. https://www.protocol.com/...
  • @ianguider Ian Guider on x
    @william_fitz With a stranglehold on voting shares, why does anyone think there'll be a single repercussion from any of these scandals.
  • @meganmorrone Megan Morrone on x
    We'd assumed that hiring engineers to work at Facebook has been brutal. Now we know. https://www.protocol.com/...
  • @kscottz Kat Scott on x
    Every decent senior engineer I know has told @Facebook to go fuck themselves. The ones I know who have been hired are either unscrupulous or are in desperate need of a work visa / citizenship and are willing to make a deal with the devil. Don't work at Facebook. https://twitter.c…
  • @evacide Eva on x
    When I tell audiences at hacking conferences that"the choices that you make matter," this is what I'm talking about. You don't have to take the job. You don't have to build the machine. And if enough people don't do it, it won't get done. https://twitter.com/...
  • @william_fitz William Fitzgerald on x
    Zuck's gonna get fired 🎶 https://twitter.com/...
  • @grady_booch Grady Booch on x
    Code has moral and ethical implications. Choosing where you write code is a moral and technical choice. Stares at certain people at @facebookai https://twitter.com/...