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> But I've been seeing responses to people working FB have been horrible since for a while now.

This might be more indicative of your bubble than anything.

Facebook isn’t having a hard time hiring, despite whatever the headlines are trying to imply. There will always be a steady stream of applicants for high paying FAANG jobs.

Being able to choose exactly which ultra-high-paying tech job you take or being able to walk away from one of those highly paid jobs is a massive privilege that not everybody shares.

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Exactly this. It is fascinating to see this bubble on HN, when on the outside I know there are tons of friends and acquaintances who are happy to get a call from recruiters, happy to land a job and happy to work there.

The name of this bubble is salty delusion/denial - hn is exactly where you would find people that have tried to get hired at FB and have failed.

HN is exactly where you would find both types of people: the ones who got hired as the one who failed.

Not sure why you tried to take a jab with the community here that way, sounds pretty salty for an unknown reason.

Curious if you'd contradict recent coverage corroborating reports that FB isn't hitting hiring targets? https://www.protocol.com/workplace/facebook-docs-hiring-recr...

Hiring engineering talent is hard across the board. I can guarantee you that FB isn't the only one who isn't hitting hiring targets.

This strikes me as true. I have never worked for a fast-growing company that was able to hit their hiring target, Facebook included.

From the article:

> Facebook's hiring problems are far from unique. Tech industry surveys indicate that talent shortages and hiring difficulties for engineers and developers are among the biggest concerns for companies right now, and the labor market has grown exceedingly tight across almost every sector in the United States over the last year.

It's possible that Facebook is doing worse than other tech companies, but the article doesn't go into that.

> This might be more indicative of your bubble than anything.

Sure. But this bubble that I was in since for a long time had been OK with JOB positions and talking about a career in FB before. So if there is anything else, that itself shows that "my bubble" stopped preferring FB. Shouldn't that itself mean there is a reduction in people choosing FB? :)

And I am coming across this online and elsewhere too. So my bubble is not the only one with this feelings for sure.

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