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My experience with Facebook. I've been referred by a friend and got a fast response from US. Since I am not in US they told me they are going to switch to EMEA

by wst_ 8y ago

My experience with Facebook. I've been referred by a friend and got a fast response from US. Since I am not in US they told me they are going to switch to EMEA dept. for the rest of interview. Then guy emails me from EMEA saying that he got my case and if he's not in touch soon I should remind myself to him... Actually the first one said that too. WHAT? I should send him an email in case he forgot about me? Anyway, he forgot. Obviously. After some time (2 weeks or so) I send him an email. Auto-response comes back "I am on vacation, contact Alice instead." Well, so I'm emailing Alice and asking what's going on, etc. Another auto-response "I am on vacation, contact Bob instead." I got really irritated by that point. So I contact Bob, and auto-response comes back "I have too many meetings today, I can't respond today." And that was it. Now, the funny part. After couple of weeks I got an automated email asking me to participate in interview survey to share my experience. Oh, boy! I'm glad you've asked, guys! So I describe the situation, ask them did they got a bad day or they treat all their candidates like that, and was it a joke or they just disregard people on a daily basis? After I submitted, the next day email comes. "Sorry, we've already have someone else for the job, bla bla bla." Really?

Twirrim 8y ago
Facebook in Seattle has an open head count. Which means lots of recruiting attempts. I finally got them to blacklist me locally, because I was getting 3-4 recruitment contacts a month, and had been for ages and was getting somewhat tired of it. I have absolutely zero interest in working at Facebook, for a number of reasons. Some of their recruiters were beyond ridiculous when it comes to persistent. My "favourite" interaction with them, only marginally paraphrased: Recruiter: "Hi, I saw your impressive work history on LinkedIn and would like to talk to you about a job opportunity at Facebook" (probably the only thing "impressive" in my work history at the time was AWS?) Me: "Thank you for contacting me, but I'm not interested in working at Facebook" Note: This was sent direct to my personal email address, not through LinkedIn. It happens to be an email address associated with both my Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, presumably something Facebook recruiters could get at? Most of their recruitment attempts have come via email instead of LinkedIn, and reference my work history on LinkedIn. < a few days pass > R: "Hi, just reaching out to you again to see if you've had a chance to rethink about the role at Facebook" M: "I'm not changing my mind. I'm not interested in working at Facebook" < a few days pass > R: "Hi, we have a recruitment open day coming up on $date, there will be food and drinks and a chance to speak with people who already work at Facebook. It's an ideal chance to see if there is any work you might find interesting here" M: "I'm really, really not interested. Stop contacting me" < $day-2 > R: "Just thought I'd send a quick reminder that the open day is coming up in a couple of days. Hope to see you there" M: "No, you won't. I'm not attending. Please stop contacting me" < $day > R: "Hi, I'm looking forward to meeting you today at the open day" By this stage I'm half tempted to turn up just so I could punch the recruiter. M: "You won't. I'm not attending. STOP CONTACTING ME" < $day+1 > R: "I'm sorry, I appear to have missed you at the open day. I was wondering if maybe I could schedule a time to speak to you about engineering opportunities here at Facebook" M: "STOP CONTACTING ME" At which point I went through my email backlog, marked every email as spam, and put in an auto-junk rule for any further communication from that recruiter.

by wst_ 8y ago

Twirrim 8y ago

Facebook in Seattle has an open head count. Which means lots of recruiting attempts. I finally got them to blacklist me locally, because I was getting 3-4 recruitment contacts a month, and had been for ages and was getting somewhat tired of it. I have absolutely zero interest in working at Facebook, for a number of reasons. Some of their recruiters were beyond ridiculous when it comes to persistent. My "favourite" interaction with them, only marginally paraphrased: Recruiter: "Hi, I saw your impressive work history on LinkedIn and would like to talk to you about a job opportunity at Facebook" (probably the only thing "impressive" in my work history at the time was AWS?) Me: "Thank you for contacting me, but I'm not interested in working at Facebook" Note: This was sent direct to my personal email address, not through LinkedIn. It happens to be an email address associated with both my Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, presumably something Facebook recruiters could get at? Most of their recruitment attempts have come via email instead of LinkedIn, and reference my work history on LinkedIn. < a few days pass > R: "Hi, just reaching out to you again to see if you've had a chance to rethink about the role at Facebook" M: "I'm not changing my mind. I'm not interested in working at Facebook" < a few days pass > R: "Hi, we have a recruitment open day coming up on $date, there will be food and drinks and a chance to speak with people who already work at Facebook. It's an ideal chance to see if there is any work you might find interesting here" M: "I'm really, really not interested. Stop contacting me" < $day-2 > R: "Just thought I'd send a quick reminder that the open day is coming up in a couple of days. Hope to see you there" M: "No, you won't. I'm not attending. Please stop contacting me" < $day > R: "Hi, I'm looking forward to meeting you today at the open day" By this stage I'm half tempted to turn up just so I could punch the recruiter. M: "You won't. I'm not attending. STOP CONTACTING ME" < $day+1 > R: "I'm sorry, I appear to have missed you at the open day. I was wondering if maybe I could schedule a time to speak to you about engineering opportunities here at Facebook" M: "STOP CONTACTING ME" At which point I went through my email backlog, marked every email as spam, and put in an auto-junk rule for any further communication from that recruiter.