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Facebook To Open New Office in Kendall Square, Adding Hundreds of Jobs (bostonglobe.com)
Facebook has a status update: The social network will open a new office in Cambridge next year and plans to hire more than 500 employees, bringing the Boston-based staff to 650. From a report: The company, which founder Mark Zuckerberg launched at Harvard before decamping for the West Coast, established its first Boston-based team nearly four years ago with a small group of employees sharing a workspace. Today, that team has grown to more than 100 people in a Kendall Square office, and space is getting tight, said Ryan Mack, who leads the Facebook Boston office. "We serve 2 billion people on Facebook," he said, "and we need to continue to scale." The new offices will occupy the top three floors of 100 Binney St., a new building designed by Elkus Manfredi that is scheduled to open early next year. Facebook will share the space with 300 Bristol-Myers Squibb employees.
We serve up 2 billion people on Facebook," he said,
FTFH.
One step closer to goodthinkful.
I already earn $55k doing IT support in Silicon Valley. Why would I want to move there?
Stolen company, stolen privacy. Be their product, you bitches. Let them mine the shit out of you.
The story behind Facebook can be found in "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal" by Ben Mezrich, which "The Social Network" movie was based on. "The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network" by Katherine Losse takes place after the movie and from a woman's perspective that I'm currently reading. The most recent Facebook-related book is "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, who sold his startup and engineers to Twitter while getting a job at Facebook in a three-way deal, and developed the ad system at Facebook that tracks both logged in and anonymous users with third-party demographic data.
For two different classes of drugs.
More useless fluff jobs.
Why would anyone want to live in a super expensive urban hellhole? What were these idiots thinking? Cheap student labor I guess..
You may wonder why I have allowed Facebook into my square... it's because here I can keep a closer eye on them, and place protective wards around them. To protect everyone else that is...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
When one Steve was enough to make a poisoned apple.
500 jobs is nothing - even if they are all "engineer" level jobs. It's pissing in the ocean. These press releases from these companies are pathetic.
I had a GM plant near me close and knocked off 15,000+ jobs. THAT hurt the local economy. 500 jobs? Pfft.
These tech companies are nothing compared to the old manufacturing era.
Facebook will share the space with 300 Bristol-Myers Squibb employees.
I misread that as "Briggs-Myers Squib" and thought well that isn't very nice.
And they have a book telling them how. It's called "To Serve Man".
when I load facebook I get ACCESS DENIED
The log files suggest it's blacklisted in squid.
I don't even have any desire to use a proxy to get there either.
the even smaller print: I don't go to businesses that use it either.
hello SIRs
my name is Ramesh Pajeet and i am top graduate of IIT with hgiheest honors
how to apply for this facebook JOB?
kindly revert back the same
best regards,
Ramesh
The only reason I can think of that they want to have a presence there is proximity to MIT. Whether MIT students or grads would actually want to work for Facebook is another matter - personally I would be kind of embarrassed to admit that I had anything to do with Facebook, and they have already had their IPO, so I don't see a lot of upside.
Too many communists have infected it.
It's good that Great Britain and ye merry olde England should reap a bounty of jobs from Facebook!
Oh, it's Cambridge, Mass. that's being talked about. Maybe headline/body could be written better so that someone who doesn't care where Kendall Square is doesn't form a mistaken apprehension?
Thanks.