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Meta freezes hiring for rest of 2022

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40 pointsastuyvenberg16 comments

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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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.

> 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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Actual Meta still have hundreds of postings on their LinkedIn.

When you try to actually apply, you get an error message about your start date having to be in the past.

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

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