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Comment by steffan | Hacker News Reader

> See also senior and older FB engineers being discouraged from participating in perks and events intended for younger and junior employees because FB can multitask at sucking.

Can you elaborate? I don't recall ever seeing anything of the sort while I worked there.

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There are all sorts of wonderful shop classes and related perks at FB. Older and senior talent in my experience is discouraged from attending these classes. Maybe they weren't always that way or maybe someone smacked them with a clue bat over that behavior, don't know...

"shop classes"? like... woodworking?

...and silkscreening - https://www.facebook.com/analoglab/

I'm over 40 and haven't noticed this at all. If anything the median age in the woodshop classes I took was well above the company's.

Interesting, either times have changed, or, much like Google, you're in a big company and your experience all comes down to the team you join. Either way, great info, thanks!

are you just making this stuff up? it's totally wrong. and if it did happen, there would be a public discussion about it very quickly.

Why don't you ask about this at an all-hands if you're so sure it's never happened or if you're so sure that everything stupid and wrong at large companies like Facebook gets addressed quickly?

I'm actually encouraged to hear others have had a different experience there. But there's plenty of stupid crap I've seen go down as well, much like other large companies. For not everything rises to the level of public discussion rather it becomes yet another papercut leading to the decision to depart.

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