<story><title>Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/16/facebook-has-struggled-to-recruit-since-cambridge-analytica-scandal.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>allthecybers</author><text>This is not a surprising headline. If you have values about privacy, decency, civil discourse, honesty or integrity you wouldn’t want to work there. Also, if you feel the company was collusive or willingly complicit in the dissemination of fake news and Russian propaganda efforts during our elections, it’d be a big fat “no” to working there. And it’s not just our democracy that is undermined by FB. There’s a litany of abuses that they have either been horribly naive too or downright negligent in addressing.&lt;p&gt;If you are bright-eyed optimistic about Facebook I&amp;#x27;d be interested to hear your counterpoint to all of the scandal. I don&amp;#x27;t think there is any company in the FAANG that is an altruistic enterprise but it isn&amp;#x27;t surprising that FB would have a decline in hiring.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>&amp;gt; I don&amp;#x27;t think there is any company in the FAANG that is an altruistic enterprise&lt;p&gt;I feel like Google started that way, and then lost its way sometime between 2009-2012.&lt;p&gt;Projects like Google Scholar, Google Books, Google Summer of Code, Google Reader, Google Open Source, Google.org, and pulling out of China didn&amp;#x27;t really have much of a business justification, but were simply something good that they could do.  Unfortunately they&amp;#x27;re a public company, and when you start struggling to meet analysts&amp;#x27; (perpetually inflating) estimates, being good - or at least not evil - is usually the first thing on the chopping block.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/16/facebook-has-struggled-to-recruit-since-cambridge-analytica-scandal.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>allthecybers</author><text>This is not a surprising headline. If you have values about privacy, decency, civil discourse, honesty or integrity you wouldn’t want to work there. Also, if you feel the company was collusive or willingly complicit in the dissemination of fake news and Russian propaganda efforts during our elections, it’d be a big fat “no” to working there. And it’s not just our democracy that is undermined by FB. There’s a litany of abuses that they have either been horribly naive too or downright negligent in addressing.&lt;p&gt;If you are bright-eyed optimistic about Facebook I&amp;#x27;d be interested to hear your counterpoint to all of the scandal. I don&amp;#x27;t think there is any company in the FAANG that is an altruistic enterprise but it isn&amp;#x27;t surprising that FB would have a decline in hiring.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>merpnderp</author><text>Forget the election, just what social networking is doing to young people&amp;#x27;s minds. They&amp;#x27;re making money by making a lot of people miserable - just not how I&amp;#x27;d want to make a living.</text></comment>