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By now they are so big that engineering is not as important. But 10/15 years ago, engineering was definitely number one
by fdgsdfogijq 5y ago
By now they are so big that engineering is not as important. But 10/15 years ago, engineering was definitely number one
- jimnotgym 5y agoThiel arrived in year 1. Sandberg in year 4. Facebook has been an investor led organisation from the beginning.
- nojito 5y agoAll startups are investor led organizations the moment they take on and raise capital.
- fdgsdfogijq 5y agoFacebook has produced the best open source software seen in the last 20 years. React basically solved front end frameworks, and pytorch steam rolled tensorflow.
- jimnotgym 5y agoSo what? The quote above says that not being an engineer will stop promotion...It is clearly not true. The fact this structure can still produce good software is neither here nor there.
- fdgsdfogijq 5y agoFacebook rains money on engineers that produce value, more than anywhere else in the industry. Clearly you don't know about this
- disgruntledphd2 5y ago> The quote above says that not being an engineer will stop promotion. Speaking as a DS who knows a lot of FB people, this is totally true. If you have a product team deliver something cool, the engineers on that team will normally (modulo variability) be rewarded a lot more than the DS people. Sometimes PM's get some of that, if the product is very successful, but the variability is lower and the mean is higher for engineers at that company (apparently).
- joshuamorton 5y agoDid anyone on the board get promoted within Facebook?