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I suspect there are an awful lot of very good engineering types who would never go and work for Facebook. No matter how much you paid them (well, let's say boun
by floathub 10y ago
I suspect there are an awful lot of very good engineering types who would never go and work for Facebook. No matter how much you paid them (well, let's say bounded at the upper end by a very, very large number).
Although (nearly?) everyone has their price, few people with _serious_ technical chops want to play on Facebook's side of the garden wall. I suspect Facebook worries about this.
[edit to remove oops; double negative]
- ironchef 10y ago"few people with _serious_ technical chops want to play on Facebook's side of the garden wall" I fear you suffer from some form of bias. Or maybe I do; however, I know some folks there who, in the devops or data engineering world, get it. I mean you had Taner (who also lent his hand to building battle.net's infrastructure), Keith Adams, JPC, David Reiss, John Allen, eric huang, sam rash, etc. Their largest hadoop cluster has _several_ hundred PB of data. You don't manage / run things on that without having some chops. Period. If you read the under the hood series, you might be able to see a different viewpoint.
- LunaSea 10y agoThe ethical viewpoint is very clear though. They just chose to be morally bankrupt.
- Gargoyle 10y agoDo you have any examples?
- pavel_lishin 10y agoWho else is working in this field, and throwing this much money at it? If this is your dream job that pays your dream salary, and nobody else is offering you the same pay or experience, I think you just might consider working for Facebook. You can always leave.
- abrichr 10y agoThe directory of Facebook AI Research is Yan LeCun, one of the top minds in the field of deep learning.