Comment by juunpp | Hacker News Reader

Comment by juunpp | Hacker News Reader

> She added that she was paid $190,000 a year and was told she wasn’t expected to hire anyone in her first year, given that she was still learning the ropes. Meta declined to comment.

How can you work at one of the most desirable (by others) companies and not be expected to hire anyone in the first year? Sounds like a very low bar for a recruiter?

> In an interview, Ms. Machado, who is based in Tampa, Fla., and has reinvented herself as a career coach, says that during a typical day at Meta, she might log on at 11 a.m., when her West Coast colleagues began their day, sit in meetings from noon until 3:30 p.m., and then check recruiting efforts on LinkedIn for an hour before logging off.

Clearly living the hi-life, and for $190k. Jesus. "Checking recruiting efforts on LinkedIn" -- aka, letting the surveillance show recommendations for you?

I have to wonder if she was simply told that their expectations for junior recruiters were lower than more senior recruiters and maybe that they even had people who, despite their best efforts, were unable to get anyone signed for up to a year. That's quite different from saying that she wasn't expected to hire anyone for a year.

edit: or as others have pointed out they were hired at the beginning of a hiring freeze and heard that hiring may not pick back up again for a year. In that situation I'd expect them to have been laid off rather soon, but certainly not informed ahead of time.

I was contacted via linked in. I suspect they were using the "nuke from orbit" hiring approach. It wouldn't surprise me if they'd hired so many recruiters that recruit to developer hire was <10

Wow they make that much? I wonder if an engineer can switch to being a recruiter easily, sounds like a pretty sweet deal

Heck, you would even understand what your candidates are talking about.

I've seen a recruiter or two who were programmers before. I think more don't do it because it's simply not as fun as coding.

If they literally couldn't hire anyone because of a freeze, I'd expect a person being paid $190k to be networking and identifying groups in other organizations that might be good to poach from based on the estimated needs of your company.

There are things recruiters can do that aren't recruiting. Just like any other job, there's important stuff to do in downtime.

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