> Now, she said, job candidates “want to meet the team. They’re not just going to blindly take a company because of the name anymore.”
This seems to not be only Facebook, but Google and other big names where the people interviewing you aren't going to be working with you.
I don't think most people realize how this actively tilts the interview against being useful for the interviewee - a large part of it is knowing who you will be working with, and if you like them and can make a good team together. Not knowing the team you will work for (by design) can really make it hard for a candidate to make a choice, given they don't have all the information. I think this is especially true for minority candidates, since you don't know if someone on the team you will be working with might have a problem with you.
This seems to not be only Facebook, but Google and other big names where the people interviewing you aren't going to be working with you.
I don't think most people realize how this actively tilts the interview against being useful for the interviewee - a large part of it is knowing who you will be working with, and if you like them and can make a good team together. Not knowing the team you will work for (by design) can really make it hard for a candidate to make a choice, given they don't have all the information. I think this is especially true for minority candidates, since you don't know if someone on the team you will be working with might have a problem with you.