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I had a radically different experience. The worst interview I've ever had was with FB about 9 years ago. I got an offer and it was significantly (like more th

I had a radically different experience. The worst interview I've ever had was with FB about 9 years ago. I got an offer and it was significantly (like more than 2x) what I was being paid at the time and I turned it down because the interview experience was so awful I couldn't imagine working with the people who had conducted my interview. Even setting aside other ethical concerns, I've added FB to my permanent blacklist of companies I will never work for sheerly because of how shit their interview process is.

bitL 4y ago
Their interview process improved significantly and they had it arguably better than any other FAANG in recent years.
- ProAm 4y ago
  I'm interested in any evidence about this. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing its just a extremely general statement about 5 companies with no facts behind it and would be interested to see whats different between all 5 companies in 2022 in the talent acquisition department.
- tomrod 4y ago
  Eh, must have failed to push it organization-wide.
  - bitL 4y ago
    Well, a friend of mine was invited to an on-site interview at Google once, flew a few hours there, then arrived at the reception, waited for 7 hours, then they told him they forgot about him and he can go back home. Some people have bad experiences for many different reasons (shrug)... Pity it happened to you.
subsubzero 4y ago
I interviewed with them 12 years ago, it was a long time ago but I remember all the interviewers felt like they had come from a funeral, everyone was absolutely miserable. I knew right then and there I could never work at a company with such negativity, also they wanted me to skip my honeymoon to start with them which I was not about to do so overall a terrible company and experience. And after I started learning about their shady business dealings I put them on a permanent blacklist to this day.
- xvector 4y ago
  I interviewed with Meta a few months ago and all my interviewers were upbeat, enthusiastic, and excited. Meanwhile my Google and Amazon interviewers looked miserable and bored as fuck. With Google it's actually been a pattern. Interviewed for them and passed HC three times, but each time I couldn't bring myself to work for them given how bored everyone looked.
  - bckr 4y ago
    A strategy my friend used was to get the "soft offer" and then shop around for a team for as long as it takes to find one that excited him.
    - garmanarnar 4y ago
      That's literally just Google's hiring practices. There is a team matching phase for all engineers.
      - bckr 4y ago
        Cool. This was at AWS.
        garmanarnar 4y ago
        Oh neat. That is less common as it's usually the teams hiring devs directly.
- hdjjhhvvhga 4y ago
  > also they wanted me to skip my honeymoon to start with them They must be really strange folks. I can't imagine 1) a company who would propose such a thing to a (potential) employee, 2) a person who would agree to that. Seriously, WTF.
  - iepathos 4y ago
    Ask them for a million dollar bonus to do so and a contract saying they'll pay any losses due to divorce later on :P /s

bitL 4y ago

Their interview process improved significantly and they had it arguably better than any other FAANG in recent years.

ProAm 4y ago
I'm interested in any evidence about this. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing its just a extremely general statement about 5 companies with no facts behind it and would be interested to see whats different between all 5 companies in 2022 in the talent acquisition department.
tomrod 4y ago
Eh, must have failed to push it organization-wide.
- bitL 4y ago
  Well, a friend of mine was invited to an on-site interview at Google once, flew a few hours there, then arrived at the reception, waited for 7 hours, then they told him they forgot about him and he can go back home. Some people have bad experiences for many different reasons (shrug)... Pity it happened to you.

subsubzero 4y ago

I interviewed with them 12 years ago, it was a long time ago but I remember all the interviewers felt like they had come from a funeral, everyone was absolutely miserable. I knew right then and there I could never work at a company with such negativity, also they wanted me to skip my honeymoon to start with them which I was not about to do so overall a terrible company and experience. And after I started learning about their shady business dealings I put them on a permanent blacklist to this day.

xvector 4y ago
I interviewed with Meta a few months ago and all my interviewers were upbeat, enthusiastic, and excited. Meanwhile my Google and Amazon interviewers looked miserable and bored as fuck. With Google it's actually been a pattern. Interviewed for them and passed HC three times, but each time I couldn't bring myself to work for them given how bored everyone looked.
- bckr 4y ago
  A strategy my friend used was to get the "soft offer" and then shop around for a team for as long as it takes to find one that excited him.
  - garmanarnar 4y ago
    That's literally just Google's hiring practices. There is a team matching phase for all engineers.
    - bckr 4y ago
      Cool. This was at AWS.
      - garmanarnar 4y ago
        Oh neat. That is less common as it's usually the teams hiring devs directly.
hdjjhhvvhga 4y ago
> also they wanted me to skip my honeymoon to start with them They must be really strange folks. I can't imagine 1) a company who would propose such a thing to a (potential) employee, 2) a person who would agree to that. Seriously, WTF.
- iepathos 4y ago
  Ask them for a million dollar bonus to do so and a contract saying they'll pay any losses due to divorce later on :P /s