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Correct. In many of these companies, part of your evaluation is how many interviews did you give. This means: the game is to do as many as these interviews, typically once a week, such that you are not penalized for doing too few interviews.

I was once penalized for giving too few interviews but there weren't enough candidates at that time! While I cared about giving every candidate a good chance for success, I can say confidently that not many did care. They only cared about getting credit for doing the interview.

Dynamic programming questions are explicitly not used in current Facebook interviews.

From time to time, Facebook and other companies study the effectiveness of their hiring process by comparing employee performance and interview performance. I believe dynamic programming questions were removed because there was not a strong link between success in this question and future performance.

> It’s a place where I’ve been sexually harassed more times than I can remember. It’s a place where I’ve been lied about, where VCs have arm-twisted editors to fire me, where billionaires have threatened those doing business with me to cut all ties. It’s a place where I’ve had people turn on me again and again and again simply for doing my job. It’s a place I’ve been betrayed by people I trusted. It’s a place where one-time friends threatened my children because I wrote about things they did.

Wow. I hope she writes a memoir of her time as a journalist. We need to hear what she has to say because this is a side that I have not yet experienced, and hopefully never will.

Facebook should be called to account if they broke any laws and were not prosecuted for it. I don't see any evidence of that in the article. What I do see is an article heavy on racial overtones, as if trying to manufacture outrage at Facebook.

What should a large company do in this case? Who should pay for the extra civic services that a company's presence causes? Residents?

Your comment is wrong in so many ways. React, Cassandra, OoenCompute, PyTorch, GraphQL: where did these come from? Facebook.

Facebook has had to pull off their own feats of engineering. It is a fact whether you like their product or not.

I work for FB. I am leaving for my own personal reasons. It is not a perfect company. Your comment, however, is wrong and I am calling it out as such.

The FANG company I work for has stringent controls in place as a check against employees attempting to do this. These controls are more comprehensive than those I've seen at other companies.

Facebook is doing exactly this. It is called the Rotational Engineering Program. Check it out: https://www.facebook.com/careers/life/facebooks-rotational-e...

I know we aren't the most favorable company these days. The recent press fury gets a lot of stuff wrong which does not help. But it is a really great place to work at as an engineer. I'm proud that Facebook is willing to try unconventional methods like this.

Disclaimer: I work for Facebook. These are my own opinions and not those of my employer.