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Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by tristor on Thursday September 29, 2022 @03:27PM (#33025822)
I had a radically different experience. The worst interview I've ever had was with FB about 9 years ago. I got an offer and it was significantly (like more than 2x) what I was being paid at the time and I turned it down because the interview experience was so awful I couldn't imagine working with the people who had conducted my interview. Even setting aside other ethical concerns, I've added FB to my permanent blacklist of companies I will never work for sheerly because of how shit their interview process is.
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Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by subsubzero on Thursday September 29, 2022 @03:53PM (#33026169)
I interviewed with them 12 years ago, it was a long time ago but I remember all the interviewers felt like they had come from a funeral, everyone was absolutely miserable. I knew right then and there I could never work at a company with such negativity, also they wanted me to skip my honeymoon to start with them which I was not about to do so overall a terrible company and experience. And after I started learning about their shady business dealings I put them on a permanent blacklist to this day.
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Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by xvector on Thursday September 29, 2022 @04:18PM (#33026544)
I interviewed with Meta a few months ago and all my interviewers were upbeat, enthusiastic, and excited. Meanwhile my Google and Amazon interviewers looked miserable and bored as fuck.

With Google it's actually been a pattern. Interviewed for them and passed HC three times, but each time I couldn't bring myself to work for them given how bored everyone looked.

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Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by bckr on Thursday September 29, 2022 @04:34PM (#33026778)
A strategy my friend used was to get the "soft offer" and then shop around for a team for as long as it takes to find one that excited him.
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Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by garmanarnar on Thursday September 29, 2022 @06:55PM (#33028442)
That's literally just Google's hiring practices. There is a team matching phase for all engineers.
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Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by bckr on Thursday September 29, 2022 @08:59PM (#33029497)
Cool. This was at AWS.
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Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by garmanarnar on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:25AM (#33080836)
Oh neat. That is less common as it's usually the teams hiring devs directly.
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Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by hdjjhhvvhga on Thursday September 29, 2022 @04:51PM (#33027018)
> also they wanted me to skip my honeymoon to start with them

They must be really strange folks. I can't imagine 1) a company who would propose such a thing to a (potential) employee, 2) a person who would agree to that. Seriously, WTF.

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Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by iepathos on Thursday September 29, 2022 @05:29PM (#33027471)
Ask them for a million dollar bonus to do so and a contract saying they'll pay any losses due to divorce later on :P /s
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Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by bitL on Thursday September 29, 2022 @03:42PM (#33026030)
Their interview process improved significantly and they had it arguably better than any other FAANG in recent years.
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Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by ProAm on Thursday September 29, 2022 @03:53PM (#33026172)
I'm interested in any evidence about this. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing its just a extremely general statement about 5 companies with no facts behind it and would be interested to see whats different between all 5 companies in 2022 in the talent acquisition department.
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Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by tomrod on Thursday September 29, 2022 @03:53PM (#33026177)
Eh, must have failed to push it organization-wide.
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Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by bitL on Thursday September 29, 2022 @04:15PM (#33026507)
Well, a friend of mine was invited to an on-site interview at Google once, flew a few hours there, then arrived at the reception, waited for 7 hours, then they told him they forgot about him and he can go back home. Some people have bad experiences for many different reasons (shrug)... Pity it happened to you.
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