❗Help close the gap: We still need to raise $40,000 by the end of March. Donate now
Codebreaker

Zuckerberg likes to take job candidates for a walk in the woods. But not to murder them and dump their bodies in a ravine. It’s not like that at all.

John Moe Jul 7, 2011
Codebreaker

Zuckerberg likes to take job candidates for a walk in the woods. But not to murder them and dump their bodies in a ravine. It’s not like that at all.

John Moe Jul 7, 2011

The New York Times has an odd little item citing anonymous sources about the Facebook head honcho’s aggressive/bucolic method of recruiting top talent. He finds who he wants, invites them over, then suggests a walk through some nearby woods where he tells them the paperwork for them to come aboard is already back at the headquarters.

From the NYT:

Another person who was taken on the same walk last year said that when they arrived at the end of the trail, they were confronted with an amazing view of Palo Alto. There, Mr. Zuckerberg stood and explained the technological history of the area.
“He pointed out Apple’s headquarters, then Hewlett-Packard and a number of other big tech companies,” the individual explained. “Then he pointed to Facebook and said that it would eventually be bigger than all of the companies he had just mentioned, and that if I joined the company, I could be a part of it all.”

After that, Zuckerberg totally did NOT plunge his needletongue into that person’s skull and lay eggs in their. That completely did not happen.

There’s a lot happening in the world.  Through it all, Marketplace is here for you. 

You rely on Marketplace to break down the world’s events and tell you how it affects you in a fact-based, approachable way. We rely on your financial support to keep making that possible. 

Your donation today powers the independent journalism that you rely on. For just $5/month, you can help sustain Marketplace so we can keep reporting on the things that matter to you.