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Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by hamandcheese on Thursday November 15, 2018 @08:13PM (#18465292)
Well, if the expectation is that you work a standard 40 hours, then 'meets most expectations' sounds like a typical and expected outcome from working 40 hours.
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Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by deminature on Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:38PM (#18466181)
'Meets most expectations' is the lowest performance rating before they PIP you. 40hrs just to be on the precipice of unemployment is dumb.
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Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by geodel on Friday November 16, 2018 @11:01AM (#18469547)
Ha, that sounds like average IT company. I wonder what 1000s of FB engineers typically do. Writing some big data processing system? or mostly just wrangling with javascript, react native etc.
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Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by kamaal on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @09:06AM (#18542326)
If busy'ness is a metric they want to measure, it's always possible to cook up projects to do that.
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