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i interned at fb a few years ago. any engineer, intern or not, can access production data. day one you set up an instance of fb on your dev server that you can
by throwawaysry999 9y ago
i interned at fb a few years ago. any engineer, intern or not, can access production data. day one you set up an instance of fb on your dev server that you can mess around with, and its connected straight to the prod db. you're able to view anything you want, but they're very adamant that they monitor what you look at.
- esman1 9y agoYes, but you have to explicitly request data every time you access anything. IDK what it was like when you interned, but that's what it's like today.
- throwawaysry999 9y agowas not the case when i was there, and it wasn't all that long ago
- pwneduser 9y agoYou and esman1 both could be right. I work at a company of similar size and sophistication as Facebook. Sometimes whether or not you have access to production data by default depends on which team you work for.
- piokoch 9y ago"its connected straight to the prod db" I can't believe what I am reading. Why is that? Why use customer data for dev purposes. Why not work on some mock data?
- pwneduser 9y agoI ask out of curiosity. If you have a P1 escalation due to an issue that is reproducible only in production environment but not with your test environment with mock data, how do you plan to troubleshoot it?