Does FB care if employees use their product?
Will be applying to intern at FB (engineering) soon. I don't think I use any of their products (deactivated Facebook, no insta, no whatsapp, no Oculus, etc). Considering how ubiquitous these products are, do you think this will work against me in the hiring process?
Yes
Did you choose to use the product(s) to work there?
Change the title. You are still not an FB employee
Yeah, it is interesting if having a FB account affects interview process. I remember being asked to design a news feed, or something - don't remember exactly - some FB component, I understand. I just asked the interviewer to explain it's functionality. Hope it didn't harm the outcome (I didn't get an offer).
Lol. Did you say to the interviewer that you have not seen FB news feed ? That was brave.
I think I know the general idea, but... Is it purely chronological, or sorted according to some relevance criteria? If latter, what is is relevance criteria? Do you get news only from you network, or there may be some "promoted" messages? How messages are selected / filtered? Is there a kind of throttling mechanism? All I am saying - I know this feed is some linear sequence of messages, that are supposed to be "interesting" to you, but no details.
Having some familiarity with a company’s bread and butter offerings that are free for anyone to use is helpful in any company especially if you are looking for a job where you’d be making “improvements” to it.
Go get an oculus. They’re pretty awesome even if you don’t work for Facebook.
Fuck no. During orientation the guy next to me didn’t even have a FB account.
They may not care if you use it but if you want to do well in interviews you have to have an idea of how fb works.