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  "id": 6263,
  "title": "Chances of getting the Job",
  "url": "/competitions/facebook-recruiting-iii-keyword-extraction/discussion/6263",
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  "post_date": "2013-11-09T13:10:51.647Z",
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  "content": "<p>Getting the job at Facebook is not my sole motivation for taking part in this competition, but I am still interested what chances are of getting the job.</p>\n<p>As far as I can see none of the top 3 from the previous two recruiting competitions actually work at Facebook. Is that because they were not interested or because they were not qualified?</p>\n<p>What exactly are the requirements for the job? How will the candidates be selected and how big of a role will their submission in this contest play?</p>",
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      "id": "33462",
      "postDate": "11/09/2013 13:10:51",
      "content": "<p>Getting the job at Facebook is not my sole motivation for taking part in this competition, but I am still interested what chances are of getting the job.</p>\n<p>As far as I can see none of the top 3 from the previous two recruiting competitions actually work at Facebook. Is that because they were not interested or because they were not qualified?</p>\n<p>What exactly are the requirements for the job? How will the candidates be selected and how big of a role will their submission in this contest play?</p>",
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      "id": "34803",
      "postDate": "11/16/2013 21:00:07",
      "content": "<p>There was a lot of discussion about this at the start of this comp, and I contributed some hopefully-useful insights at the time. I'm not sure that there's much more for me to say. (Maarten emailed me suggesting I look at this question.)</p>\n<p>I was #2 of FR1 when I dropped out of it (my only post to the comp forum of FR1 explains my I did) but by the end of the comp I was 20-something-th. So technically you're correct.</p>\n<p>Those earlier discussions explain that there are a lot of factors in getting a job. Going well in this comp puts you front and center in the recruiters' attention. It lets you cut through the phenomenal number of people applying to companies like Facebook every day; in other words, it does indeed give you a huge headstart. (It's no different from the fact that by working at Facebook, I get contacted by headhunters from Apple, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, and numerous smaller Valley companies and startups, pretty well every week or two. Most of them never even responded to my applications when I was just a grunt in a foreign country -- not because I wasn't the same person then that I am now, but simply because finding the right people from the millions [literally] that apply to the big companies is a really hard problem.)</p>\n<p>But the final steps of the hiring process are basically the same. However you get through the top of the funnel, the bar is the same when you get to the pointy end. (Er, mixed metaphors there, but hopefully you know what I mean.)</p>",
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      "id": "34805",
      "postDate": "11/16/2013 21:36:35",
      "content": "<p>Also, check the availability of revelant positions in countries of interest. In the previous FB competition I was 24th in ranking, still I was contacted by the FB recruiter. I told her that I would prefer to stay in the UK than move to the US, but there were no data analyst positions in the UK at that time. So I said that I have no problems with moving to the US then, she said she will forward my documents to some friend recruiter and he will contact me, but he never did ....&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "34810",
      "postDate": "11/17/2013 00:12:04",
      "content": "<p>Thanks.&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "34811",
      "postDate": "11/17/2013 00:20:03",
      "content": "<p>How soon into the competition were you guys contacted by recruiters? Was it after the comp was over or sometime in the middle?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "34812",
      "postDate": "11/17/2013 00:23:18",
      "content": "<p>I was contacted by Kaggle a week after the competition finished.</p>",
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      "id": 34803,
      "author_name": "costella",
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      "post_date": "11/16/2013 21:00:07",
      "content": "<p>There was a lot of discussion about this at the start of this comp, and I contributed some hopefully-useful insights at the time. I'm not sure that there's much more for me to say. (Maarten emailed me suggesting I look at this question.)</p>\n<p>I was #2 of FR1 when I dropped out of it (my only post to the comp forum of FR1 explains my I did) but by the end of the comp I was 20-something-th. So technically you're correct.</p>\n<p>Those earlier discussions explain that there are a lot of factors in getting a job. Going well in this comp puts you front and center in the recruiters' attention. It lets you cut through the phenomenal number of people applying to companies like Facebook every day; in other words, it does indeed give you a huge headstart. (It's no different from the fact that by working at Facebook, I get contacted by headhunters from Apple, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, and numerous smaller Valley companies and startups, pretty well every week or two. Most of them never even responded to my applications when I was just a grunt in a foreign country -- not because I wasn't the same person then that I am now, but simply because finding the right people from the millions [literally] that apply to the big companies is a really hard problem.)</p>\n<p>But the final steps of the hiring process are basically the same. However you get through the top of the funnel, the bar is the same when you get to the pointy end. (Er, mixed metaphors there, but hopefully you know what I mean.)</p>",
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      "id": 34805,
      "author_name": "mpekalski",
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      "post_date": "11/16/2013 21:36:35",
      "content": "<p>Also, check the availability of revelant positions in countries of interest. In the previous FB competition I was 24th in ranking, still I was contacted by the FB recruiter. I told her that I would prefer to stay in the UK than move to the US, but there were no data analyst positions in the UK at that time. So I said that I have no problems with moving to the US then, she said she will forward my documents to some friend recruiter and he will contact me, but he never did ....&nbsp;</p>",
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    {
      "id": 34810,
      "author_name": "ma2rten",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/17/2013 00:12:04",
      "content": "<p>Thanks.&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": 34811,
      "author_name": "omaro126129",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/17/2013 00:20:03",
      "content": "<p>How soon into the competition were you guys contacted by recruiters? Was it after the comp was over or sometime in the middle?</p>",
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      "id": 34812,
      "author_name": "mpekalski",
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      "post_date": "11/17/2013 00:23:18",
      "content": "<p>I was contacted by Kaggle a week after the competition finished.</p>",
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