&lt;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/17/facebook-job-offers-shunned-by-top-talent-after-cambridge-analytica-scandal-report">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/17/facebook-job-offers-shunned-by-top-talent-after-cambridge-analytica-scandal-report</a>&gt;<br><br>The fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal continues to hurt Facebook as candidates turn down job offers from what was once considered one of the best employers in the tech sector.<br><br>Job offer acceptance rates at Facebook have significantly decreased, it has been reported, after the revelations last March that the data of up to 87m users of the social network had been used improperly by Cambridge Analytica to target ads for Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election.<br><br>There has been a major decline in interest in Facebook jobs from potential new recruits among top US schools, such as Stanford, Carnegie Mellon and Ivy League universities, according to CNBC.<br><br>Facebook’s acceptance rate for full-time positions offered to new graduates has fallen from an average of 85% for the 2017-2018 school year to between 35% and 55% as of December, according to former Facebook recruiters. The biggest decline came from Carnegie Mellon University, where the acceptance rate for new recruits dropped to 35%.<br><br>There has also reportedly been a decline in acceptance rates at Facebook among software engineer candidates for its product teams. Acceptance rates among those teams have fallen from nearly 90% in late 2016 to almost 50% at the start of this year, according to the report.<br>[...]