Meta freezes hiring for rest of 2022 (opens in new tab)

(businessinsider.com)

40 pointsastuyvenberg3y ago16 comments

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From the internal email of the global head of recruiting, as reported by reporters Kali Hays and Rob Price at Business Insider:

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“What this means right now in Engineering Recruiting:

- At this time, we will need to pause Eng hiring for IC6 and M1 hiring, effective immediately, with the exception of ML IC5+ candidates.

- We will not extend any new offers to IC5 and M1+ Eng candidates (except ML IC5+) for these select pipelines and will be canceling future scheduled interviews.

- We will continue with scheduled interviews at onsite for IC6/M2 Eng candidates, but will not be adding any net-new candidates as we are confident we have enough people in process to meet our hiring goals.”

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davesque3y ago

From my armchair's perspective, Meta has started to look to me a lot like the IBM of social media so I don't find this very surprising if true.

jstx13y ago

> In an internal memo, CFO said a "reprioritization" is in part due to an "industry-wide downturn."

Is this spin or are things really cooling off?

hedora3y ago

Spin, based on my inbox and team's open reqs.

phendrenad23y ago

I think they're doing the smart thing. They've positioned themselves to be the leader in VR, and the largest patent-holder in VR, they now just need to wait for VR technology to advance. Their existing business, social media, isn't going anywhere. They just need to stay at #1 in both areas until the economy recovers.

dekhn3y ago

They weren't trying very hard to hire before that. I'd get a lackluster "heyyyy! do you want to reinterview" every 6 months or so. I'd explain my situation (senior enough that if you send a junior person to interview me with a leetcode question, the hiring team made a mistake) and they wouldn't even reply.

ThrowAway145913y ago

Sounds like you were ghosted for being full of yourself. Judging from your 2013 account creation, you would have been leveled at either senior or staff, during which you would still be expected to complete coding interviews. Meta, like Google and hedge funds, only stops asking candidates to write code after they become very established leaders in their field, such as Carmack.

kasey_junk3y ago

I never had to write code for any of the hedge funds I worked for and never saw leetcode style hiring at all at any point in my finance career.

dekhn3y ago

I don't care about coding interviews. I care when extremely junior employees give me questions literally out of leetcode (I've seen enough to recognize the test cases). That's not a test for coding, nor does it have anything to do with the code I wrote over a decade at Google.

trepanne3y ago

As high as engineering director candidates still need to pass a coding interview (at pretty relaxed standards), and write code to clear tasks in bootcamp (just a few). If you won't get your hands dirty, even a little, to send a signal & land a job, then either you don't want it or you'd be a bad fit for it.

dekhn3y ago

I. don't. care. about. coding. interviews. It's junior employees giving senior employees leetcode questions (find the subset of numbers whose sum is larger than a the largest prime...) with the test values straight from the leetcode site.

beamatronic3y ago

They have many postings on LinkedIn - should they just be ignored?

brianwawok3y ago

Are they from actual meta or from recruiters who may not have the memo / are still trying?

jstx13y ago

Actual Meta still have hundreds of postings on their LinkedIn.

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astuyvenbergOP3y ago

Non paywalled: https://easttip.com/fb-freezes-hiring-sure-engineers-as-zuck...

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firstSpeaker3y ago

From the internal email of the global head of recruiting, as reported by reporters Kali Hays and Rob Price at Business Insider:

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“What this means right now in Engineering Recruiting:

- At this time, we will need to pause Eng hiring for IC6 and M1 hiring, effective immediately, with the exception of ML IC5+ candidates.

- We will not extend any new offers to IC5 and M1+ Eng candidates (except ML IC5+) for these select pipelines and will be canceling future scheduled interviews.

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davesque3y ago

From my armchair's perspective, Meta has started to look to me a lot like the IBM of social media so I don't find this very surprising if true.

jstx13y ago

> In an internal memo, CFO said a "reprioritization" is in part due to an "industry-wide downturn."

Is this spin or are things really cooling off?

hedora3y ago

Spin, based on my inbox and team's open reqs.

phendrenad23y ago

dekhn3y ago

ThrowAway145913y ago

kasey_junk3y ago