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Meta freezes hiring for rest of 2022

by astuyvenberg on 5/4/22, 9:38 PM with 16 comments

  • by firstSpeaker on 5/5/22, 5:42 PM

    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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  • by davesque on 5/4/22, 11:50 PM

    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.

  • by jstx1 on 5/4/22, 9:45 PM

    > 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?

  • by phendrenad2 on 5/5/22, 9:30 AM

    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.

  • by dekhn on 5/4/22, 11:39 PM

    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.

  • by beamatronic on 5/4/22, 11:32 PM

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

  • by astuyvenberg on 5/4/22, 9:39 PM