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. Facebook Lost Out to Twitter Recuiting Highly-Respected Algorithms Engineer Pankaj Gupta. Facebook Has Had Trouble Finding a Director of Monetization.

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Facebook's Recruiting Problem, Explained
CFO Gideon Yu's controversial departure from Facebook has increased focus on the company's problems retaining top talent.
But Facebook's people problem isn't limited to executive retention. The hot startup with over 200 million users also has a surprisingly hard time recruiting new employees -- from top executives to college grads to star Googlers. Sources familiar with the situation tell us Facebook's "close rate" on new employees it wants to hire hovers around 80%. One former Facebook employee -- who like many former employees, might have an agenda -- puts the rate below 50%. Either way, for a company with the potential to mint hundreds of millionaires in a rare Silicon Valley IPO, both …show more content…

This think piece wasn’t written to inform you further about the mechanical failures, but rather to determine if the human error could have been caused by factors beyond the employee’s control. The eight HR processes that contributed to Toyota’s downfall
If the root cause of the problems Toyota is facing are failure by employees to make good decisions, confront negative news, and make a convincing business case for immediate action, then the HR processes that may have influenced those decisions must be examined.
The HR processes that must at least be considered as sus pect include rewards processes, training processes, perform ance management processes, and the hiring process. 1. Rewards and recognition – The purpose of any corporate reward process is to encourage and incent the right be haviours and to discourage the negative ones. It’s im portant for the reward process to incent the gathering of infor mation about problems. It’s equally important to reward employees who are successful in getting executives to take immediate action on negative information.
Key questions – Were rapid growth (sales have nearly doubled recently) and “lean” cost-cutting recognised and rewarded so heavily that no one was willing to put the brakes on growth so as to focus on safety? Were the rewards for demon strating error-free results so high that obvious errors were swept under the table? 2. Training – The purpose of

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