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Perhaps having the freedom to work on these problems is necessary to keep talent.

Positive stories associated with the brand seem especially needed these days. Perhaps FB keeps other “rainy day” projects as well.

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I was contacted by their recruiters recently and started getting warmed up on their interviewing, etc. However, this was back in December when they put out ads against Apple's choice to allow users to opt out of tracking. It kind of made it difficult to want to follow through on the interview process after that... so I didn't.

I did the same. I don't think you are alone, at all.

FB pays well and works on really interesting things but I just can't justify the moral price of working there.

Thank you for your choice of not working there!

Yes, LeCun is still head of AI research there, and he's a big draw for talent. Any advancements like this (unsupervised learning) are a huge boon for technology. Often, the most time consuming part of machine learning is creating the labeled dataset. It's amazing to see what can be achieved without one.

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