Interesting. My experience with the two organizations would lead me to disagree. Fb eng are not more focused on wealth than my friends at Google. To answer t

Interesting. My experience with the two organizations would lead me to disagree. Fb eng are not more focused on wealth than my friends at Google. To answer the original question: Depends on what you define as cool. Generally Google seems to value solving hard problems while fb values shipping innovative products. Google: 1) has more perks (better food, car rentals, massages, etc) 2) has more money 3) is less focused on immediate return. IE, it's acceptable at google to work for years on an algorithm that hasn't shipped. Facebook: 1) longer hours 2) smaller teams 3) greater impact / eng. There's about 1MM users per engineer. Everything at Facebook is measured in user impact. There's little patience for a product that doesn't ship.