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Re:On Leaving Facebook by zionic on Friday January 21, 2022 @10:30PM (#30033123)
> Not a single interviewer (from junior engineers to directors and VPs of engineering) asked me anything remotely like "Why are you still at an awful company like Facebook?"

Sure, we disqualified you when you listed them on your resume. You never got callbacks and probably blamed it on XYZ. You don’t understand, there’s a growing group of us in Silicon Valley that will never hire you if you have FAANG on your CV.

Re:On Leaving Facebook by throwaway31332 on Saturday January 22, 2022 @12:28AM (#30033933)
After reading your many comments in this thread, I honestly hope you *did* come across my resume and silently "disqualify" me. Sounds like it saved me from a miserable job working for a toxic narcissist of a manager.

You seem to have an enormous chip on your shoulder towards FAANG companies. Did you work for one and fail spectacularly, or did you just get rejected a bunch of times?

Re:On Leaving Facebook by yumraj on Friday January 21, 2022 @10:50PM (#30033276)
Exactly. I cannot trust folks who have spent more than 1-2 years at FB to make ethical decisions and I will not hire them.

Similarly, I will not go to a company if people up the chain, including my immediate boss or the CEO are ex-FB.

If the CxOs are ex-FB I cannot expect it to be an ethical company.

But, that’s me.

Re:On Leaving Facebook by zionic on Friday January 21, 2022 @11:10PM (#30033431)
Thank you. A lot of mercenaries here are posting coopium all over this thread.

They just don’t get it, we don’t want them. We believe they’re evil. We see them, and their skills, as a liability and not employable asset.

Re:On Leaving Facebook by eclipxe on Saturday January 22, 2022 @01:53AM (#30034355)
lol.
Re:On Leaving Facebook by stickfigure on Friday January 21, 2022 @10:39PM (#30033185)
I really wish that people who let strong political opinions bleed into their professional careers would somehow flag that on their resumes, so I could likewise avoid them.
Re:On Leaving Facebook by sofixa on Friday January 21, 2022 @11:32PM (#30033593)
Having a moral/ethical compass isn't "political".
Re:On Leaving Facebook by disgruntledphd2 on Saturday January 22, 2022 @10:23AM (#30037444)
So there's only one true moral compass?
Re:On Leaving Facebook by sofixa on Saturday January 22, 2022 @10:39AM (#30037579)
No, but it's hard to see a person having one and seen Facebook on the "good side" of a moral compass.
Re:On Leaving Facebook by loeg on Friday January 21, 2022 @10:56PM (#30033327)
Surely if your business has such a strong moral stand on hiring former Facebook employees, you can name it?
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Re:On Leaving Facebook by loeg on Saturday January 22, 2022 @12:24AM (#30033903)
My manager doesn't care about your company. My primary interest is in knowing what company I should avoid interviewing at.
Re:On Leaving Facebook by ncmncm on Sunday January 23, 2022 @02:46AM (#30044394)
By report, you need not worry about that.