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Comment by throwaway91111 | Hacker News Reader

Barely related, but Facebook seems like a TERRIBLE place to advertise for hiring.

I belong to a networking group for CTO's. Pretty much everyone has reported that Facebook ads are basically the best way to find developers right now. Extremely cost effective with lots of excellent results.

I have some concerns about the effect they have on diversity (given how tightly you can target them). But the results seems to be really good.

That's...bizarre. In past surveys over 80% of HN users report using adblock. Anecdotally that's very true of devs I know personally, and of the rest, there are 0% I'd want to hire.

I'm very curious who these developers are that (1) let Facebook show them ads and (2) god forbid, actually click on them

Probably mobile users.

That's the only time I ever browse without adblock and, yes, I have actually clicked on a hiring ad, which led to my current job.

If you use Firefox on mobile you can use uBlock Origin to block ads on your phone.

Why?

My guess: You're targeting people who waste their precious time on Facebook. And if they don't value their own time, they probably won't value yours either.

That's incredibly arrogant, to say the least.

Who clicks on ads? Who goes to facebook to look for jobs? Why would you pay per click for a job posting?

The cynical part of me suspects this will enable monocultures and discrimination.

Just doesn't make sense.

>Who clicks on ads?

Not me, or most people here.

Yet Google and Facebook are things.

Ok, more to the point, do they really expect prospective, quality engineers to click on facebook ads? Especially for someone with the brand recognition (for better or worse) of uber.

If it looked legitimate, I'd click...

Logically no one. People go to LinkedIn and other work-related sites. BUT facebook being who they are and tracking you in (almost) each and every website on the planet (that silly like/share button) they "know" that you are job hunting and leverage on that knowledge.

...if you're already signed up and logged in.

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