Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal
I just spent three months hiring in NYC, and now that I think about it, I haven&#x27;t seen a single person mention they were considering counteroffers from Facebook. For context, Facebook and Google are the two largest tech companies with a significant NYC presence. It&#x27;s telling that a substantial portion of our candidates admitted to considering competing offers from Google, but literally no one was considering Facebook.<p>&gt; Usually half of the close is done for recruiters with the brand Facebook has<p>I&#x27;m also finding that company brand plays a <i>huge</i> role in closing candidates. Our company&#x27;s brand is generally pretty strong, and I&#x27;ve found one of the things candidates respond to most is the story we tell about our company&#x27;s past, present, and future. Facebook&#x27;s story has become &quot;we were founded by a jerk who didn&#x27;t care about privacy, our not caring about privacy has had massive consequences for American and global society, and our promises to improve our approach to privacy in the future have proven to be disingenuous smokescreens.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s no wonder the substantial portion of people who care about their employer&#x27;s ethics are turned off.