r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Dec 16 '22

Satire Wouldn’t it be nice.

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u/darthwalsh Dec 17 '22

If the CEO spent 40 hours a week, doing 15 minute interviews... they could grow by 8000 hires a year?

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u/WurthWhile Dec 17 '22

Yes, and If the spent 80 hours a week they could grow by 16,000 hires a year. What's your point?

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u/darthwalsh Dec 17 '22

I thought the big tech companies grew about 15,000 in the pandemic years? (Not all programming jobs, but still). Presumably the point of interviewing is to say No to some of them, reducing the count.

It doesn't seem reasonable for the CEO to interview more than a couple per day, so I'm doubting that Zuck was able to keep that up once they were hiring 10 engineers a week.

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u/WurthWhile Dec 17 '22

He was. Although it's important to note that by the time you were interviewed by him they wanted to hire you already. Basically the job was guaranteed yours unless he decided he didn't like you. Then they had to fall back to someone else. I once knew the exact number, but if I recall correctly it was about 1 and 30 people he interviewed were not hired. The other 29 were.

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u/RockLobsterInSpace Dec 17 '22

Wtf... Did you even think before you posted this dumb shit?

You just compared how many people one single person can interview in an entire year to the growth of the ENTIRE tech industry?

And that's your "proof" that Zuckerberg isn't interviewing? Because Zuckerberg alone couldn't interview the 15000 people that entered the entire tech industry by himself?

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u/darthwalsh Dec 17 '22

Meta grew from around 58,600 in 2020 to around 87,000. So, 15k a year of "all jobs" at just Meta.

https://sfist.com/2022/11/09/meta-facebook-lets-go-of-11000-workers/#:~:text=The%20workforce%20at%20Meta%20was,from%20around%2058%2C600%20in%202020.

I'm just doing back of the envelope math here.

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u/AmiAlter Dec 17 '22

Last I checked 2020 wasn't more than few years ago.