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Say what one might about Meta's company & business policies - but their engineering talent is pretty top-notch. (Note: I am not a FAANG person). Having their of
by srvmshr 5y ago
Say what one might about Meta's company & business policies - but their engineering talent is pretty top-notch. (Note: I am not a FAANG person). Having their office in your backyard genuinely lifts the quality bar in the place.
Their openstack hardware standard was a quite a good step. Datacenter hardware & designs will get standardized eventually by such ventures. React and graphQL are very innovative software designs. The FAIR team regularly publishes excellent ML papers (IMPO they are second place after Google Brain, and slightly ahead of MSR in ML research). They pay well and retain quite a good pool of talent. If you're interested please have a look at the Facebook OpenSource channel. That's a pretty good source of learning cutting edge stuff working on scale - and unlike G-Brain, its genuinely open 99% of the time.
Again, I dont like their business product(s). But the team that works on them is pretty marvelous
- fxtentacle 5y agoThing is, you can learn from their Open Source without supporting their cash cow product. Also, maybe the German startup ecosystem would be better off with Facebook's engineering talent being spread out over 100 small start-ups (all of which would pay taxes) instead of bundled in one huge entity (which doesn't pay taxes). And if I remember correctly, "fairseq" (the foundation of Facebook's recent wav2vec2 ASR breakthrough) and the foundation of Microsoft Translator were both designed by PhDs at the University of Edinburgh. (EU Grant 688139 initially funded what became Microsoft Translator). I applaud Facebook and Microsoft for hiring promising PhDs and giving them the resources to succeed, but I'm not convinced that European countries are better off with these people working at FAANGs - as opposed to local competitors.