>Respect in the eye of peers is a human need 'Peer' is very flexible. This could be a comparison to people the same age in other careers. Also, keep in mind t

>Respect in the eye of peers is a human need 'Peer' is very flexible. This could be a comparison to people the same age in other careers. Also, keep in mind that Facebook engineers are constantly surrounded by other Facebook engineers so their SE peers probably do approve. They collectively don't think Facebook is a problem so they implicitly approve of each other.