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Comment by jamesvl | Hacker News Reader

Satire is well and good, but i can't grok #9. Interviews in a hot tub? So... even for the women? Or is it used preferentially for high pressure engineers only (whom of course are all men)?

It may be just me, but I can't see the HR department in any state being okay with that. And if it's not for interviews... what's it for?

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Maybe it was added later, but the article has a link to a photo album of a "hot tub" in the Seattle office. There's no water in it, people are just using it to hang out.

They say they only use it for high calibre candidates, who presumably already have the job our could otherwise just tell then to stop being silly

And does Facebook supply the bathing suits?

Are women allergic to hot tubs or something? I wasn't aware there was anything particularly masculine about a hot tub.

Do you seriously not understand how a hot tub could be inappropriate as part of a job interview?

Not as bad as a casting couch or a swimsuit competition, but still bad. Obviously, indisputably bad. I just hope that part of the article was not inspired by truth.

Perhaps the post was edited later, but they don't actually use it for interviews (ever).

See the photo album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151055286951458....

Read the paragraph again:

There is a fully-working hot tub in the New York office that interviews are conducted in. I didn’t believe this until I saw the photos on Twitter. It was billed to me as a way to test candidates’ resilience under pressure. I was told that it’s used rarely...

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I installed a hot tub (non-functioning) as a conference room in Facebook Seattle. Interviews are never done in them.]

I'm not sure what you're trying to point out to me. You're just confirming what I wrote.

Philip Su, the blog author, installed the (non-functioning) hot tub and was joking about it being used for interviews.

According to the blog post there is one they use for interviews occasionally in New York and one in Seattle they do not use. So saying "they don't actually use it for interviews (ever)" is incorrect according to this article.

The post also mentions that hot tub interviews at Facebook New York are completely untrue. Then goes on to say what is true, which is that there's a non-functioning hot tub in Facebook Seattle which is never used for interviews.

To be completely sure, I contacted the author and will post another reply when he verifies what's actually the case.

I think I misunderstood the "editor" note referring to "this is completely untrue" - I interpreted it as saying it being illegal was untrue. Thanks for the repeated clarification.

If you're still interested, the author replied: http://i.imgur.com/LdZ51.png

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