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>Facebook has lost relevance to Slack, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest and Quora. If you are working at Facebook ask for a 50% raise else move to a startup. What
by tschwimmer 10y ago
>Facebook has lost relevance to Slack, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest and Quora. If you are working at Facebook ask for a 50% raise else move to a startup.
What? This is one of the more baseless assertions I've seen recently. Regardless of how you feel about Facebook's business practices and "relevance," 1.2 billion (yes, billion) people use it every single day.[0] In 2015, its revenues were 18 billion (yes, billion) dollars. [1]
I just don't know how you can look at those figures and make an assertion you need to demand a 50% raise or quit. I think you could do a lot worse than being an engineer at FB right now (and for the foreseeable future).
[0]http://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/ http://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/
[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/277229/facebooks-annual-revenue-and-net-income/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/277229/facebooks-annual-...
- CaveTech 10y agoI mean, isn't it the goal of SE's to chase the newest hottest, thing and switch jobs every 6 months? I mean that's the real way to have a lasting impact /s At this point I'm betting there's a real pool of engineers in SV who have never worked on a real product; they simply focus on getting in the door and then start working on the next step up somewhere else.