[Karrot_Kream]

Facebook is a huge employer, it makes it hard to believe that if they're losing folks to crypto companies that it's somehow localized to Facebook. What does this have to do with Facebook and the "type of people it attracts"? Are you arguing somehow that Facebook hires a very particular type of engineer despite common knowledge that the folks that work at one FAANG will usually be willing to work on other FAANG companies? Or do you deny that FAANG companies have the number of people to make the original statement true?

[insulfrable]

Facebook is a company with shady ethic that attracted people willing to look the other way because the money is too good.

But they just lost 37% on the "too good" money.

So where do you think these people are going next?

[Karrot_Kream]

Yes and? The original statement was that crypto is having a hard time hiring, the GP rebutted that saying they're seeing FAANG engineers leave. You then try to make an ethical argument. So? What does that have to do with the reality that FAANG, who employes lots of engineers, is losing engineers to crypto? Or do we need to move the goalposts and scope this discussion to "ethically-approved" (TM) companies?

[throwaway423342]

You work for FB or something?

[espadrine]

Facebook literally made a cryptocurrency, a crypto wallet, and a number of associated products.

Following regulatory response, they have been downsizing it to a tiny speck of its former size.

Them losing folks to crypto companies is the most obvious result of the past five years, but it has more to do with their strategy struggles than the overall mindset of the engineering population.