my point is actually agnostic from the positive or negative impact. My point is more "Facebook is doing great, so EVERYTHING Facebook does is great by definitio

my point is actually agnostic from the positive or negative impact. My point is more "Facebook is doing great, so EVERYTHING Facebook does is great by definition". So hiring practices, engineering practices etc... Then you take a step back and realize a good half of whatever they are doing is completely useless and doesn't add anything to the bottom line. An interesting experiment I've done at a company I used to work at (I'm a product manager) was to take a graph of revenues, and ask the team if they could identify what the fluctuations or changes in slope were due to. Turns out almost nothing we had done in about a couple years changed a damn thing about our trajectory. We were doing well, not great, and nothing we did made a damn difference (actually something, but not as much as we thought). Long story short, if you work at Facebook you might think the secret sauce is how good you are at hiring, but considering the cost involved and the outcomes you would be better off just extracting resumes at random from a jar.