If the recruiter is looking for FreeBSD experience and not just *nix experience he needs to be a hell of a lot more explicit. As is it just sounds like the recruiter doesn't know what he's talking about and is trying to just go based on keywords.
Especially since this is a UX research internship, and the candidate made perfectly clear that that is how the recruiter was coming across, so the recruiter had every opportunity to clarify.
The candidate didn't handle it perfectly, the recruiter however handled it far worse.
Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems
by Spooky23 on Thursday September 07, 2017 @07:36AM
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Read more carefully. It was a production engineer internship, not UX research.
Early phases of job applications are about following directions and saying what you need to truthfully say. I'm actually surprised that my original comment was voted into oblivion -- its a pretty obvious reality. The recruiter did his best to say "Just write Unix" without crossing a line.
Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems
by aspyrx on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @10:56PM
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I'm going to leave the image up. It's regrettable, but for accountability's sake I don't want to run away from my mistakes. And yeah - I think it boils down to their having strict requirements and large applicant volume, so my response definitely wasn't appropriate there.
Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems
by bonzini on Thursday September 07, 2017 @04:26AM
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They didn't have strict requirements, unless you mean strict requirements on what keywords appear in the CVs that are submitted.
If they need experience with a specific Unix they should ask for it by name. Having worked with a number 'real' Unix's (mainly Solaris, Irix and Digital Unix/Tru64) I can tell you that it's no easier (or harder) to transfer knowledge between, say, Irix and Solaris than between Linux and Solaris.
The recruiter handled himself professionally and should be commended for not being bullied. Mr. Zhang sounds like a punk, and would probably be better served by pulling the image.