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Facebook Employees Are Calling Former Colleagues To Look For Jobs Outside the Company and Asking About the Best Way To Leave (cnbc.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Six former Facebook employees who left the company within the last two years told CNBC they've experienced a rise in contact from current company employees to inquire about opportunities or ask for job references. [...] The shift could be an early warning of recruiting and retention challenges for Facebook after a turbulent year. In 2018, the company has faced public questioning at multiple congressional hearings, scandals around third-party abuse of user data and public relations practicesand flat or declining user growth in key markets. It's also seen its stock drop nearly 40 percent from July. The stories from former employees are only anecdotal at this point, and there's no firm data showing a significant uptick in departures or employee dissatisfaction.
I love Leftist failures! Bring more!
I don't use it and neither should anybody else.
Facebook Employees Are Calling Former Colleagues To Look For Jobs Outside the Company and Asking About the Best Way To Leave
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The stories from former employees are only anecdotal at this point, and there's no firm data showing a significant uptick in departures or employee dissatisfaction.
These are TFAs that no one will read.
Politics; n. : A religion whereby man is god.
... in Dallas at the building with the Pegasus.
Back in the 90s there were rumours of pending layoffs in IT (didn't happen until 1.5 years later) and the best coders, on lunch break, walked across the street to Kodak; got hired on the spot and left with one day notice.
It was a fucking mess. I was a new hire in 1986 and could not pick up the slack from those who left.
I did continue to have coffee with the blokes and asked them how it was going.
Their reaction was that it didn't matter if the goddam mainframe supported a credit union, bank, hospital, film processor or the fucking oil patch.
Computers are computers. Data specific to the use case was not a big deal.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Yeah, everyone you know no longer uses and expresses open hatred for the product.
It's time to move.
I'd like to see them burn next.
Expect to find ads for work to push ads.
On how to report users.
Got shadow ban skills?
Can offer advanced censorship?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Every mass exodus starts with the most qualified, most valuable employees, and continues to the lesser and lesser qualified ones. It takes the most qualified people less time to find another job! Eventually, all that are left are the incompetents... Yahoo!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
And when it finally does die, I am going to shout out in happiness. Thankfully, I am now 13 months free from that monstrous nightmare.
The "best way to leave" is to leave. This really isn't difficult.
Unless, of course, you've built a lifestyle that depends on suckling on the Privacy-Destroying Big Intrusive Adware teat and desperately need someone else to overpay you to keep yourself in unnecessary Amazon Prime purchases. But nobody in the tech industry would be that naive.
How else you call creating a national story based on infromation from 6 employees? Did they even pick them at random? Who did benefit from running this story?
That's practically two anecdotes!!! Shut it all down!
"I've know some guys who know guys who're calling around."
If there were actual background interviews, that talked to those looking re why, then anecdotal might be useful or interesting. It's otherwise useless, and leads to reader to guessing. Are they looking cuz tech is in maintenance? They suck on privacy? Their stock isn't in the money anymore? Tech is hot so they can go somewhere else...
Some insight...
Not everyone uses Mobil Oil though. Everyone uses Facebook, one way or another. In fact, one of my last job interviews had it as a requirement for employment.
There is just nothing else out there for making discussion groups, pages, or creating events.
I won't hire you because of your non existent ethics. You've stabbed an entire country in the back, and you think I ought to trust you?
It's hilarious to listen to the AM-radio GOP Alt-INCELs blather on with their 1920's terminologies like they have any idea, lol. Keep going. "Facebook's centralizing the means of production, what blatant Trotskyists!"
Well if six whole people who decided not to work there say the company is circling the drain then it must be true.
There are certain types of characteristics that we look for in our employees. People who worked for companies like facebook or any of the other "take-your-info-and-sell-it" companies don't show the type of character we want.
It is about personal character.
Heck, I'd rather hire someone who worked on DoD projects that only killed thousands of people vs people who have screwed over billions.
Everytime I left a job I'd get 3-4 co-workers asking me how I liked it, how much I made, was I happier, etc etc etc.
Everytime a co-worker left I'd drop them an email asking how they liked it, how much they made, were they happier, etc etc etc.
Computers are computers. Data specific to the use case was not a big deal.
Yes, but those two companies likely had similar development cultures. For example neither probably advocated moving so fast and testing so little that buggy ("broken") software was produced yet *tolerated*.
Many of these facebook employees searching for jobs may now find their utility to potential employers is less than that of an inexperienced recent grad. That their "move fast and break things" experience is considered detrimental and they have to be re-trained.
My company recently ripped apart their UX team. Highly qualified and productive team, but the execs decided to shift directions. Several of those people landed at Facebook. They've reported that they are engaged in meaningful and challenging work, and a great overall work environment. So count me in with the doubters here.
near one of the open mic collection devices.
The ad company is always listening.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
This is what you get for facilitating the election of the orange dumbfuck. Crash and burn, Zuck. Couldn't have happened to a better jag off.
I would like to gently remind you that the alternative was a carpet-bagger who voted for the "authorization to Use Force In Iraq" (the 2nd Iraq War) over a non-existent weapons of mass destruction program, and was primarily responsible for re-introducing a literal slave trade in Libya after she lead the charge to bomb that nation to "prevent a humanitarian crisis" - a nation that remains in civil war to this day, with literal slavery markets.
I would have voted for Caligula's horse over that mass murderer.
As an influencer you may no longer concern yourself solely with greed. You've already demonstrated capacity to manipulate your users. The control we exercise through mass media is slipping, and it is imperative that this situation is corrected.
Therefore you must demonstrate a willingness to become a full partner, and faithfully exercise the responsibilities this requires. You will join the ranks of Alphabet and Twitter in serving this important purpose. If you do not, these attacks will continue, and have even greater consequences util you are forced out and replaced. Or worse.
You must comply.
Totally correct. The thing is that facebook doesn't run on wishes and dreams.
It runs on something much worse: PHP
This is what you get for facilitating the election of the orange dumbfuck...
I would like to gently remind you that the alternative was a carpet-bagger... I would have voted for Caligula's horse over that mass murderer.
Fortunately you didn't have to - there were several other choices you could have gone with.
Funnily enough, that authorization was a piece of paper that said the President could invite as a last resort. The 98 or do other senators all voted yes too. Only Kucinich voted no, then got gerrymandered out of office.
Bush, and Bush alone, decided to go to war. Everyone else was an advisor and not "the decider" as he put it.
But yeah,
Orange man bad.
wow at least 6 former employees told CNB........ of the 34,000 employees at facebook.... It's not very uncommon for people to ask others to keep a look out. This isn't any news, this is just media exaggerating something that really isn't a thing.
I.e. it might be not about bad working conditions, or that something changed that makes more people want to leave, but that people go to Facebook, gain a few years of experience and then maybe launch a business on their own or with a few others or else switch to a somewhat more specialized posting.
I read an interview where someone stated that about google, that for most it's a goal to get there, but after a few years a stepping stone elsewhere.
"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself." -- Bill Hicks
"F*ck you, Mark Zuckerberg!"
I remember seeing video of their offices. They literally have clocks on walls stating when sprints end.
Do that for years and you'll burn out unless they are lax deadlines.