Opening Vignette Exercise: To execute its innovation strategy, Facebook seeks technical talent with strong skills, previous accomplishments, and both curiosity and motivation. A good fit with the company’s culture, good understanding of online social media, and the ability to work well with others are also important. This chapter’s opening vignette provided some information about how the company currently assesses job candidates on these dimensions.

Reread the opening vignette and its conclusion, and answer the following questions in a group of three to five students. Be prepared to share your answers with the class.

a. Do you think it’s appropriate for Facebook to require candidates to write code on a whiteboard during its assessment process?

Why or why not?

b. What are the advantages and disadvantages to Facebook of asking software engineering applicants to do so much coding during the initial assessment process?

c. Identify two other assessment methods you think Facebook could use to assess applicants’ fit with the company’s culture of innovation and smart risk taking.

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