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Hmm... the headline is in direct contradiction with what I read on Blind. People are still flocking at Facebook's gate for an offer.

mrkstu 7y ago
The difference being, the very best, with multiple offers, are choosing another path. Its like the very best high school students with offers from Harvard, Princeton and Yale- but suddenly Facebook is being treated as if it's Dartmouth or Cornell instead of Princeton and being left with the leavings of the very best instead of having its pick. Still very talented people to be sure, but not the 'best.'
- malandrew 7y ago
  how do we know that the ones no longer seeking employment are the very best and not just the ones that are most woke? > Among top schools, such as Stanford, Carnegie Mellon and Ivy League universities, Facebook’s acceptance rate for full-time positions offered to new graduates has fallen from an average of 85% for the 2017-2018 school year to between 35% and 55% as of December, according to former Facebook recruiters. The biggest decline came from Carnegie Mellon University, where the acceptance rate for new recruits dropped to 35%. It's entirely possible that the 35-55% of those that are still accepting offers at FB are the most talented of the people that have interviewed at FB and gotten offers. I know a lot of great engineers, woke and politically indifferent. The most effective ones that I've worked with are the least politically engaged because they are more heavily engaged with building things than politics.
- throwaway55554 7y ago
  > The difference being, the very best,... ... at doing LeetCode all day.
throwaway55554 7y ago
Ok, but Blind is filled with the type of people who would fit right in at FB.
- seattle_spring 7y ago
  Ouch, there's honestly no worse insult than being compared to the average Blind user.
  - shearskill 7y ago
    Oops my mistake for looking there, noped out after viewing the train wreck for myself.
mrep 7y ago
Ha, first thing I thought of when I saw a Facebook struggling to hire post is blind. If any reason is causing people to not interview with facebook, I would argue it was the weekly burnout thread that was happening on blind last year.
- decebalus1 7y ago
  Oh, interviewing is one thing. I would advise everyone to interview with Facebook, especially when you don't want to work there (less pressure). If you get an offer, it would most likely be pretty generous so you can further use it as leverage at the companies you want to work. But yeah, Facebook is the new Amazon when it comes to working people to death.

mrkstu 7y ago

The difference being, the very best, with multiple offers, are choosing another path. Its like the very best high school students with offers from Harvard, Princeton and Yale- but suddenly Facebook is being treated as if it's Dartmouth or Cornell instead of Princeton and being left with the leavings of the very best instead of having its pick. Still very talented people to be sure, but not the 'best.'

malandrew 7y ago
how do we know that the ones no longer seeking employment are the very best and not just the ones that are most woke? > Among top schools, such as Stanford, Carnegie Mellon and Ivy League universities, Facebook’s acceptance rate for full-time positions offered to new graduates has fallen from an average of 85% for the 2017-2018 school year to between 35% and 55% as of December, according to former Facebook recruiters. The biggest decline came from Carnegie Mellon University, where the acceptance rate for new recruits dropped to 35%. It's entirely possible that the 35-55% of those that are still accepting offers at FB are the most talented of the people that have interviewed at FB and gotten offers. I know a lot of great engineers, woke and politically indifferent. The most effective ones that I've worked with are the least politically engaged because they are more heavily engaged with building things than politics.
throwaway55554 7y ago
> The difference being, the very best,... ... at doing LeetCode all day.

throwaway55554 7y ago

Ok, but Blind is filled with the type of people who would fit right in at FB.

seattle_spring 7y ago
Ouch, there's honestly no worse insult than being compared to the average Blind user.
- shearskill 7y ago
  Oops my mistake for looking there, noped out after viewing the train wreck for myself.

mrep 7y ago

Ha, first thing I thought of when I saw a Facebook struggling to hire post is blind. If any reason is causing people to not interview with facebook, I would argue it was the weekly burnout thread that was happening on blind last year.

decebalus1 7y ago
Oh, interviewing is one thing. I would advise everyone to interview with Facebook, especially when you don't want to work there (less pressure). If you get an offer, it would most likely be pretty generous so you can further use it as leverage at the companies you want to work. But yeah, Facebook is the new Amazon when it comes to working people to death.