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Re:Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge... by warp_factor on Thursday May 16, 2019 @04:53PM (#19933096)
The general feel I get from most of my engineer friends is that Facebook's product is definitely not inspiring and doesn't "make the world a better place" (whatever that means).

But the consensus is that given the right amount of money, they would all accept an offer from them. And Facebook is known to pay very well.

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Re:Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge... by subparwheat on Thursday May 16, 2019 @07:32PM (#19934543)
It's pretty true that the pay trumps them all. But Google is generally pretty good at matching Facebook's offer. So when choosing between FB and Google, or any of FAANG, the pay is usually less of a concern. So being considered "not inspiring" and "evil" is definitively not helping FB to close on the candidates.
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Re:Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge... by sidlls on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:58AM (#19936686)
FAANG's hiring processes are so arbitrary and non-repeatable that it's entirely possible (even likely, I suspect) for a person to have offers from just one of these. Other than Amazon, an offer from these companies is practically a lottery ticket.
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Re:Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge... by varelse on Thursday May 16, 2019 @07:30PM (#19934531)
W/r to comp, that's my data point, don't like? Then don't like...

FB has a salary cap below GOOG, AMZN is just cheap and prefers people leaving to countering. Then AMZN makes a big deal of hiring such people back for what they should have countered, proudly calling them "boomerangs."

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