I left FB about 9 months ago and still talk to my friends there daily. Many of them are down in the infrastructure layers, which is 1) where the interesting stu

I left FB about 9 months ago and still talk to my friends there daily. Many of them are down in the infrastructure layers, which is 1) where the interesting stuff is, since the top is just a sleazy web app with advertising, and 2) very insulated from most of the political stuff. It's not a bad idea to join FB as an engineer. Just make sure you end up working on something that you wouldn't get to elsewhere, keep in mind that, like all organizations, it has its own unique pathologies, and set yourself up so you can walk away if you need to.