[author] Many did and it was well earned. The team was awesome and had great camaraderie, but the work was horrible. Everything that broke led to a SEV for ou

[author] Many did and it was well earned. The team was awesome and had great camaraderie, but the work was horrible. Everything that broke led to a SEV for our team, even though 80% of the time it was not our code (somewhere deep in the API that had insufficient logging and observability). All our customers hated the product since it was so buggy, and our internal customers (sales ppl at FB) hated it for the same reason. They didn't see the 16 hour days, nights and weekend that we were all putting in to fight fires, do a fundamental rewrite from two JS frameworks to an untested new one (React), and add hundreds of new product features to keep up with FB's exploding Ads org. It was three years of hell to be frank, but very rewarding if you're into that kind of thing. It took a special type of person to join that team, knowing how long it would be before any payoff was really visible in the product, all while being vilified inside and outside the company even though you didn't build the thing, you just agreed to jump in and help fix it.