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Facebook's culture is basically a younger brother of Google's, or at least used to be. There's a reason their tech stacks are so similar - FB went through a pha
by repolfx 7y ago
Facebook's culture is basically a younger brother of Google's, or at least used to be. There's a reason their tech stacks are so similar - FB went through a phase where it poached a lot of Googlers.
A tech firm is most easily defined as a company founded and run by a software or hardware engineer. The only exception I can think of is Apple, but Jobs was immersed in engineering culture from the time he was a teenager - he was sort of a sphinx in that regard. Even so, it's fair to say Apple under Jobs is maybe more of a high-end design house than a traditional tech firm: their in-house talent struggled with online services and anything involving complex computer science R&D, e.g. their AI / mapping efforts were weak sauce compared to Google.
- julienreszka 7y ago"their tech stacks are so similar" in what ways? not similar at all
- repolfx 7y agoThrift RPC is basically a clone of Stubby. Lots of sharded MySQL (not so much at Google anymore but the whole time I was there, the ads db was a giant sharded MySQL DB). Small number of large monorepos. Etc.