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"The sheer strength of their [the Facebook team's] talent is almost unmatched in our industry, past and present." I do not doubt that every employee at Faceboo
by gavanwoolery 15y ago
"The sheer strength of their [the Facebook team's] talent is almost unmatched in our industry, past and present."
I do not doubt that every employee at Facebook is a competent (or even fairly smart) person, but I kind of doubt they are the most talented people in the software industry. Most of them have not created anything mind-blowing, and many of them are simply employees because they are one or two degrees of separation from Zuckerberg or Harvard/Stanford alumni.
The fact that they are employees is a dead give away - if they are really talented, they would not be working for someone else, especially for the trivial amount of (or lack of) stock that most of them are given.
- jackowayed 15y agoNot everyone is willing and able to face the instability, stress, long hours, bad pay, etc. of a startup. Some that are willing and able are choosing not to do so right now but may sometime in the future. Many, probably most, of the great contributions to our field have been made by employees. Being an employee, especially an employee at a company with a ton of very smart engineers working on the cutting edge, is a valid choice that many extremely talented people make.
- gaius 15y ago90-95% of FB's current employees didn't join "a startup", they already had masses of funding at that point.
- irahul 15y ago> The fact that they are employees is a dead give away - if they are really talented, they would not be working for someone else I don't know much about FB employees but can assume there are really talented based on the amount of traffic they handle, and the software they release(Cassandra, Thrift, HipHop). I don't see a relation between being working for someone else and talent. Rob Pike, Ken Thomson and many more work for Google. By your generalization, they aren't really talented?