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Correct me if I’m wrong, but Facebook hires people under a generic role (Software Engineer) and then has them choose the team they will join after a “bootcamp”
by bxji 6y ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Facebook hires people under a generic role (Software Engineer) and then has them choose the team they will join after a “bootcamp” session. So they are not preallocated to a team to fulfill a specific need, and it’s not a direct 1 requisition to 1 person type system. I believe that’s what the above poster was referring to when they mentioned Facebook hiring to be general.
- Closi 6y agoThe purpose of the program seems to be to bring in workers where there is a specific need, so if it’s a generic role then that’s not helpful to their cause.
- dboreham 6y agoDefinitely not true. "Competent developer" is sufficiently specific. Role is just an instance of the class job.
- Closi 6y agoWhat purpose do you need to hire that developer for?
- username90 6y agoTo build software so you can compete with other software companies? These big companies have large engineering offices overseas as well, if they can't hire in USA they'd just put these people there instead. They wouldn't start hiring less qualified Americans as many in this thread seems to believe.
- Closi 6y ago“Building software to compete with other companies” wouldn’t be specific enough for me if I was the judge. If you said to me “we are building a VR headset and there is a specific image technique we want to employ to correct for foveated lenses, and we want to bring in an image processing expert” then that would be different if I was the judge. I’m not arguing what should be the case, I’m saying what I think the intent of the current law accommodates for.
- adamc 6y agoRight. But the DOJ is saying you cannot use the law that way.