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> 2) Talent wars. It's already happening. See last month's New York Times story "‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ So Say Some Computer Science Stud

• vkou 8y ago
  Some college students have been saying this back in 2017, 2016, 2015, and so on and so forth. For some definition of 'Some'. They then get 6-figure offers, and shit, have to pay those student loans somehow.
• ryandrake 8y ago
  There was a time when I was younger, at the height of Microsoft’s unethical attack on Linux and open standards, when I would not have even considered working for them, and would automatically recommend “no-hire” anyone who had recent experience there (because what kind of depraved moral compass do you have working there?) If your company’s brand gets a black enough mark, it can have real consequences.
• bepotts 8y ago
  I recently graduated from college and was heavily involved in national hackathons, and this story is just BS. It's so laughably BS that this story can be used as proof of the New York Time's willingness to publish anything that'll hurt Facebook. Facebook goes to the best schools in the country and hires the best of the best.