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> The chances are better than even that I wouldn't be considered a "cultural fit" with the company (I'm a bit "long in the tooth," and I've found that's a "show
by packetslave 6y ago
> The chances are better than even that I wouldn't be considered a "cultural fit" with the company (I'm a bit "long in the tooth," and I've found that's a "showstopper," these days).
Anecdata: I'm 40+ and as far as I can tell, I fit in just fine.
> Also, I specialize in writing native Apple software in Swift. I don't think that's a stack they are really interested in.
A recent earnings release said that 90+% of FB ad revenue is from mobile. Between Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsAp, IOS is definitely a company priority (although I don't think we've publicly released stats on Android vs. IOS).
I don't actually know if/how-much Swift we're doing vs. ObjC (I'm on the server side of things, not the client)
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoThe people I talked to described a massive ObjC monorepo (Instagram). Not sure about the FB app, but you guys did invent React, so I suspect that platform-dedicated solutions are not high on the guest list.