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This could be unrelated: I was interviewing with them recently, had a technical interview scheduled, and then out of the blue last week they emailed me and told me they were discontinuing the process as they had now filled all positions... this was not the result of an interview, a had already "passed" the previous one and scheduled the next.

I assumed it must have been something about me (and it still could be), but the timing of this is interesting.

I am also in Canada which is where the person was told the hiring situation had changed.

Same scenario for me. I am on the USA. It looks like there is hiring freeze going on.

I received a "we have filled all positions" email from them and I have not been interviewing, or even responding to their emails.

Same. I had been casually talking with a Meta recruiter via email (no interesting opportunities discussed). This week I got an email telling me they were stopping contact because there were no jobs available anymore that fit my "experience and qualifications". I knew they had a hiring freeze recently, so I assume that is why I got that email.

i'm in canada and same situation. i was interviewing for e6 and i found out my interviews had been cancelled when i logged into the recruiting portal to confirm my schedule

i still haven't received any email about it

Same here, but I required VISA sponsorship (or Canada's equivalent) and received the "had roles filled" before the first interview. I thought that they had prioritized people that didn't need sponsorship.

The strange thing is that now they followed up with another offer to join their Rotational SWE Programme. By that time I had already heard about the hiring freeze and figured the recruiters are trying to circumvent the freeze. We'll see how that goes...

Pretty much everyone who has ever interviewed with Facebook got that email last week, heh

Not really a rescinding of a signed offer for business reasons, since the person in question didn’t get a Visa. The offer would have had to be rescinded regardless.

Looks more like they weren’t able to get a Canadian offer letter approved, since it fills a different HC in Canada.

Really awful situation but the title of this post implies more than I think is really happening.

Looks like there was internal pressure at Meta to reverse the reversal once this got traction. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/zhuozhuo_update-yesterday-aft...

This is why it pays to not burn bridges. He thanked Meta in the first post, and didn’t blame them.

It looks like an one off case based on this thread. Title saying "offers" seems misleading.

Rhetorical pluralization is a plague

There is currently a hiring freeze at Meta for most positions but this rescinding case was mostly caused by visa lottery problems it seems like.

Suggested title change:

'Meta rescinded their offer letter to me'

Trust me bud, Canada is not a place you want to come to right now unless you want to spend $500 per month to sleep in a hallway. Housing prices and inflation here is out of control. I know people that are going back to India because it’s so bad here and not what they were sold when they were convinced to come here for “opportunity”.

Wouldn't they just ... spend more than $500 per month ... to not sleep in a hallway? OP was interviewing for Meta, they should be able to afford rather more than $500 per month.

Meta salaries are not really competitive, frankly. In Canada at least. A small 350 sqft 1 bedroom in Toronto is very expensive given the salary of junior positions.

Yeah, okay, but 500 bucks a month?

Housing supply is incredibly low and fiercely competitive, some people I've personally spoken to literally had no other choice but to "rent a hallway".

Shit, let me check out a place for $500/mo please? All jokes aside, ‘da west’ as a land of opportunity, pioneering spirit, freedom, milk, honey… is gone. There are too many people now for it to work effectively. An increasing amount of people are fighting for the same resources that aren’t becoming more abundant. ‘Constant growth’ is not the reality now.

This reminds me of the famous quote from Yogi Berra: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

Now seriously, there is indeed such thing as being a victim of one's own success.

I like it :) By ‘nobody’ he must mean ‘the in-crowd’, those that ‘know’.

For sure. It’s like anything really. The smaller and more niche it is, the better. More people means more competition, more idiots. This is why I’m happy that emacs is this tiny community. The quality of the average emacs user is super high, everyone is polite, acts in good faith and can initiate newcomers to do the same and continue the spirit. A huge influx breaks this little ‘yolk’ and then it’s just a mess.

TLDR: Canada (Toronto in this ex) has much lower salaries, higher taxes, worse weather, but lower one bdrm rents.

According to goog, Boston is comparable to Toronto so...

Soft dev average salary in: . Toronto: 60k USD (77 CAD) [0] . Boston: 106 USD [1]

[0] https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salaries/toronto-software-developer... [1] https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salaries/boston-software-engineer-s...

Post tax income: . Toronto: 42.5k USD (54.7k CAD) [0.1] . Mass: 70.4k [1.1]

[0.1] https://ca.talent.com/tax-calculator/Ontario-77000 [1.1] https://smartasset.com/taxes/massachusetts-tax-calculator#er...

Median rent for studio: . Toronto: 2k CAD/month [2] . Boston: 2.5k USD/month [3]

[2] https://www.zumper.com/rent-research/toronto-on [3] https://www.zumper.com/rent-research/boston-ma

This was a contractor I think.

No.

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