The Facebook employment tour, offering both “technical and non-technical opportunities...for full-time, co-op, and internship candidates,” has begun, as noted earlier today by Justin Smith of Inside Facebook. In fact, it began last week, according to the “Facebook at Brown” schedule. The company is gradually closing in on the mark that would make its workforce 1,000 members strong.
You have presumably read plenty of news about employees at the largest of tech giants, Google in particular, who made the switch to walk with the most famous CEO in the social networking scene. Do you take that into account?
And on a more macro scale, in this less-than-stellar economic setting, do you consider what the likelihood of Facebook’s relevance might be 5-10 years hence, if it indeed lives to see its teenage years? No doubt about it, the questions quickly pile up. How do you respond?