Facebook definitely needs the "fanciest" engineers. Simple problems become much more complex at scale and Facebook also solves plenty of really hard problems. A

Facebook definitely needs the "fanciest" engineers. Simple problems become much more complex at scale and Facebook also solves plenty of really hard problems. Also when your whole business relies on tech the costs of bad engineering and the benefits of great engineering are both enormous. I think I'd always have an incredible engineer for 700k or however many k rather than a 5 mediocre engineers. More people rarely solve problems, better people do