Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews

Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by scottlamb on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @03:24PM (#24485619)

> Anec-data: Turned down an $800k Principal ML Scientist job at a FANG. Interviewed with a director who couldn't answer what I would be doing / working on.

I agree that's weird. Edit: although when did this happen in the interview process? It's pretty common to first decide if you're interested in hiring someone in general and later do the match-making to a particular team/project. Maybe not at this level though...

> Facebook is notorious for this, lots of friends get absolutely eye-watering salaries to sit around and provide 1% lifts on click-through-rates.

It's worth it to Facebook to pay someone an absolutely eye-watering salary if they can get a 1% lift on click-through rates. This work doesn't interest me, but it's absolutely not the same as otabdeveloper4's claimed "These guys are hiring 'top talent' only as a defensive measure, so that upstart competitors don't get them."

Disclaimer: I work for a FAANG. I don't work on advertising but it obviously supports my salary.

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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by GaryNumanVevo on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @05:29PM (#24486918)

It was a re-neg situation. I had accepted the offer, then was in talks with the director who recommended me. Unfortunately I can't say much more about that situation due to NDA.

IMHO hiring engineers to hyperoptimize advertisement platforms is a bit wasteful.

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