10 ms·
I wonder if a 30-year old did this, they'd get hired, too?
by test1235 11y ago
I wonder if a 30-year old did this, they'd get hired, too?
- pjmlp 11y agoNo, because they would have a life and learned the abuse corporations put their employes through.
- ZanyProgrammer 11y agoI think the parent comment was referring to ageism in the hiring process in Silicon Valley.
- pjmlp 11y agoYes, and a reason why they only hire very young people is that they haven't yet learned that saying yes to everything or putting employer before the private life won't help them in the long run.
- FLUX-YOU 11y agoIt's difficult to know without more specifics of why he got the full-time position. It's a great accomplishment for him but his app didn't sound as technically rigorous as the interview or job requirements Facebook would give a 30-something. It's probably the same reason the news finds teenagers passing college calculus/physics fascinating but not so with 30 year olds. His app could have also solved a lot of technical problems that 30 year olds couldn't in interviews and maybe he blew through Facebook's technical interviews easily.
- tootie 11y agoA grown-up wouldn't get sympathy from the enterprise sales team at Parse.
- notahacker 11y agoIf part of a sufficiently well-connected seed funded startup team that didn't have a business plan beyond hitting the top ten in the App Store, there's a realistic prospect they'd be acqui-hired at a cost of >£1m per person to Facebook. Getting a teenager who's done it the hard way, probably for a fraction of that outlay, sounds like a smart move.
- ryanSrich 11y agoWhat 30 year old smart enough to make an app would work at Facebook?