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Honestly I think its more than just that, Facebook is no longer the cool start up building the world's favorite website. They're a multi-national advertising me
by bognition 7y ago
Honestly I think its more than just that, Facebook is no longer the cool start up building the world's favorite website. They're a multi-national advertising mega corp, and TBH most people just don't want to work there.
- lallysingh 7y agoIs anyone?
- silversconfused 7y agoYes, but you haven't heard of them yet.
- Talanes 7y agoThey're not "the cool startup building the world's favorite website" until we've heard of them.
- silversconfused 7y agoMy good dude, once you've heard of them, they are not cool anymore. Cool is exclusive. Cool is mysterious. Cool doesn't care what is popular. When cool goes mainstream, it's not cool anymore! The trendsetters have already moved on.
- lallysingh 7y agoI can only think of SpaceX, but they're not a website.
- ppeetteerr 7y agoTotally agree. There are dozens of companies that aggregate user information (Google amongst them). Like @bognition said, FB lost its cool a while ago.
- oska 7y agoA long while ago. In Australia I'd say that 2009 was probably the end of FB being perceived as (at least somewhat) cool. 2008/2009 was when I remember being encouraged to join up by peers. My joke way of deflecting that (because I've never wanted to join) was to say that I'd applied but been rejected for not being cool enough. This reply would often leave people non-plussed - I was ironically mocking the idea of FB being cool (at the time) but I don't think most people got the joke.
- quantumsequoia 7y agoIs collecting user information itself considered unethical? Isn't the unethical part abusing sharing of that information? No one rallies against the US Census as unethical
- JohnFen 7y ago> Is collecting user information itself considered unethical? If it's being done without the informed consent of the user whose data is being collected, then yes.
- seppin 7y agoSince 2014 yes
- tobtoh 7y agoBut Apple, Google, Microsoft aren't the cool start-ups either and they are mega-corps, yet people still want to work there. So I don't believe that line of reasoning holds up.
- ajdlinux 7y agoAt least to me, Microsoft's desirability has gone up considerably over the last decade.
- adjkant 7y agoIn terms of cool tech, Apple/Google absolutely are a cut above Facebook now in my experience. Microsoft used to be below, now they rose as they embraced more open source and modern tech, I'd probably put Facebook/Microsoft/Amazon even in the cool category these days while Facebook was stereotypically above Microsoft before. Amazon, depends who you ask for a definition of "cool" from more so.
- freetime2 7y agoI would wager that at all of these companies, how “cool” your job is depends heavily on your specific team and role. I’m sure there are thousands of people with very uncool jobs at Google, and thousands of people with very cool jobs at FB. Comparing two companies of that size and saying one is cooler than the other is probably an oversimplification. That being said, I share your perception that Google and Apple are cooler than FB. :)
- dodobirdlord 7y agoI think your wager is completely accurate. With Amazon as an example, depending on your team you could find yourself doing high-performance work in cutting edge languages on a globally distributed high-availability FaaS platform, or you could be using Perl 5.8 to make tweaks to a website that will only be displayed in certain parts of India.
- bryan_w 7y agoYou may have forgotten that Facebook owns oculus and is doing some pretty cool things in the AR/VR space