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The general feel I get from most of my engineer friends is that Facebook's product is definitely not inspiring and doesn't "make the world a better place" (what
by warp_factor 7y ago
The general feel I get from most of my engineer friends is that Facebook's product is definitely not inspiring and doesn't "make the world a better place" (whatever that means).
But the consensus is that given the right amount of money, they would all accept an offer from them. And Facebook is known to pay very well.
- varelse 7y agoAMZN<FB<GOOG<Wall Street in my experience for AI skills. #OneDatapoint
- pferde 7y agoYou seem to be lost. Twitter is down the hall, second door on the left.
- varelse 7y agoW/r to comp, that's my data point, don't like? Then don't like... FB has a salary cap below GOOG, AMZN is just cheap and prefers people leaving to countering. Then AMZN makes a big deal of hiring such people back for what they should have countered, proudly calling them "boomerangs."
- subparwheat 7y agoIt's pretty true that the pay trumps them all. But Google is generally pretty good at matching Facebook's offer. So when choosing between FB and Google, or any of FAANG, the pay is usually less of a concern. So being considered "not inspiring" and "evil" is definitively not helping FB to close on the candidates.
- sidlls 7y agoFAANG's hiring processes are so arbitrary and non-repeatable that it's entirely possible (even likely, I suspect) for a person to have offers from just one of these. Other than Amazon, an offer from these companies is practically a lottery ticket.