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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by Grue3 on Thursday September 07, 2017 @02:48AM (#15189613)
>once you get past the inane recruiter junk you find yourself on a superb team of talented people

But... these are exact same people the "inane recruiter junk" has selected. How good can they possibly be?

Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by grecy on Thursday September 07, 2017 @03:00AM (#15189659)
Just because the people played the "inane recruiter junk" game doesn't mean they are good or bad.

Maybe the manager of the team does an excellent job of sorting out the noise after people have passed the recruiter game. Maybe they have great face-to-face interviews with the team and the team decides.

There are a hundred reasons why the recruiter junk is meaningless to the quality of the candidate, but it certainly lets you know everyone that gets through is willing to be adaptable, compromise, communicate clearly etc. etc.

Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by joatmon-snoo on Thursday September 07, 2017 @05:02AM (#15190120)
Because this is one of hundreds (if not thousands) of recruiters that Facebook has ever employed ;)