>A gift to Meta recruiters, brought to you by Sundar.
I considered interviewing for Meta recently. Then I realized that these are the people who have access to my conversations with my girlfriend when I was 15 years old, and a complete chronological geotagged history of my exact whereabouts for the last 10 years.
This is a weird logic. They have that data regardless of whether you work at Meta or not. If you are worried about that data, working for Meta would give a better chance (however small it is) to either influence the direction of the company, or see how bad internal controls on the user data is and act on it sooner than not working for Meta. You are not better off by simply not working for Meta.
Meh. It is unclear to me that so many people will want to work fully remote when their company offers a (real) office to work in 3 days a week. The mental benefits of in-person working can be significant.
"3 days a week" is untenable because it requires that you live within an 8-hour drive of your office.
If they want to make a mandatory mix of remote and non-remote work, it should be like oil rigs, where you go to the office to work and live on campus for two consecutive months out of the year, and then you go home for the rest of the year.
Requiring that you be chained to a single metro area for the entire duration of your employment is objectively inferior to a situation where you can live wherever in the world you want (except I guess for countries that have sanctions) and you can even just get rid of your home and spend each week working out of a different city and just have to give 2 months of your life to the company.
> where you can live wherever in the world you want
People fantasize about this, but I don't really understand the need for so much stimulation, and lack of appreciation for continuity, simplicity, familiarity, and "putting roots down".
Then again, I suppose you might want these things, but your roots are in Ohio, and you simultaneously want to work for a Bay Area company.
I have no desire whatsoever for any of those things - the world is interesting and any individual place for more than 6-12 months is boring. I do not understand how people can be satisfied with doing the same thing over and over again, and not lose the will to live. So this misunderstanding goes both ways.
If you want familiarity, “roots” and simplicity, knock yourself out. I don’t want that, and I want you to accept that I don’t want that, nor will I accept it for your convenience.
I’ve been remote for a decade. I will never work in an office again, but if you want to that is fine. I’m not the one asking you to stay remote or leave your “stable” subdivision. Instead, you seem to believe that I should want what you want because you’re happy with it. No.
> you seem to believe that I should want what you want
There's a disconnect there where you're reading a lot into what I said.
Granted, my comment was terse.
Here's more detail of what I was thinking when I wrote that:
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People (myself included) fantasize about living all over the place.
But, since I (a person in my late 20s) have learned more about myself, I've started to appreciate simplicity, continuity, and roots (which I had to work really hard to create, after a very complex personal history that I won't get into here).
Because I have experienced this personal shift and really valued it, I've started to think that the desire to live in many different places is mostly mimetic, and that if I pursued this, I would not be able to have the things that I have achieved in the last 5 years.
Therefore I don't understand why this notion is so widespread or how it got into my head (but it's probably through mimesis of the novel).
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By all means, you do you. I'm jealous that you have found something that is really working out for you, and my comments are coming from a place of curiousity and the need to work out what I desire. I'm sorry to have failed to come across in any other way.
