I get that you dislike this format. There are legitimate critcisms. But to extrapolate this to a company-wide strategy failure is beyond ludicrous and simply belies just how much you detest whiteboard coding. Please, for your own sake, try and separate your personal dislikes from objective judgements.
Meta is product-driven not engineering-driven. How engineers are hired doesn't really matter because it's generally not engineers at the helm.
Meta is in the position they are because post-WhatsApp there has been no company strategy. First it was the post-2016 election fallout of fighting misinformation, which was never going to work and isn't really the problem anyway, followed by a brief foray into crypto and finally the eye-watering boondoggle that is the metaverse, the answer to the question no one asked.
None of that has anything to do with hiring engineering ICs with whiteboard coding interviews and it's crazy to suggest it is.
I have worked at two FAANGs. It's obvious to me that there is no vision, just raw execution on strictly defined design documents. The product decisions come from a place that is commonly never even exposed to the engineer.
"Meta is product-driven not engineering-driven."
My point exactly. Divorcing product management from technical implementation is a fools errand in an extremely technical company.
When every engineer is focussed on execution, it adds up. Interesting engineering led ideas cannot lead the company in new directions.
>None of that has anything to do with hiring engineering ICs with whiteboard coding interviews and it's crazy to suggest it is.
you don't think dangling a massive salary behind an easily gamed interview format can lead to problems and attract the wrong type of people to a company? FAANG is now attracting people who would have been on Wall Street 20 years ago. They are money chasers, not the type of people who actually build things
>Meta is in the position they are because post-WhatsApp there has been no company strategy
>How engineers are hired doesn't really matter because it's generally not engineers at the helm
you don't see the dissonance between these 2 statements? Maybe if you had builders with opinions instead of coding robots who follow instructions they wouldn't be such a mess
Meta is product-driven not engineering-driven. How engineers are hired doesn't really matter because it's generally not engineers at the helm.
Meta is in the position they are because post-WhatsApp there has been no company strategy. First it was the post-2016 election fallout of fighting misinformation, which was never going to work and isn't really the problem anyway, followed by a brief foray into crypto and finally the eye-watering boondoggle that is the metaverse, the answer to the question no one asked.
None of that has anything to do with hiring engineering ICs with whiteboard coding interviews and it's crazy to suggest it is.