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They seemed to have no problems hiring people. The main problem is they hired too many people just before the bubble burst so had people doing nothing until th

• birdyrooster 4y ago
  They clearly did have problems because if they were closer to the actual business they would have not hired so many people because the way that Facebook and Google work is they hire people externally to find work internally. There is a lag time between being hired by Google and joining your team for example. At Facebook they do bootcamp and whatever. The point is that since team isn't doing their own hiring you will ALWAYS have this cohort of unusable people. In the best case its the same as if teams were hiring their own people, but in the worst case you will have teams who don't need anyone but still have all of these unused people in the cohorts you are recruiting. It's only efficient for the use-case of making sure there is always someone available to recruit.