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I'm actually fairly certain it was "within working hours" free time. Facebook doesn't have 20% time or anything like that, but, in practice, there's lots of ext

I'm actually fairly certain it was "within working hours" free time. Facebook doesn't have 20% time or anything like that, but, in practice, there's lots of extra time for whatever you want. This was my experience as an Engineer at Facebook and I certainly "pay it forward" as a manager. Probably worth adding that we ultimately created a python foundation team, of which Jason is a member. Here's something dumb I created in my "within working hours" free time that Facebook let me open source: https://github.com/facebookresearch/py2bpf https://github.com/facebookresearch/py2bpf

_sdegutis 8y ago
I've always had the drive to do things like this in my spare time. I'd love to get paid for solving technical problems for an employer. I think besides the obvious, I'd make a good candidate for an employee at something like Facebook. More companies should encourage hiring developers who would solve problems in their spare time. When I applied for an apprenticeship at 8th Light, they had me write a tic tac toe game, and I wrote it in 4 or 5 different languages, just for fun. I think that's why they hired me. Man, it would be good to have an employer. Any takers?