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I suspect that a great salary helps attract/retain - but (and I'm not a rockstar coder who has to worry about this) - but out of the FAANGs, Facebook on the sur
by goldcd 4y ago
I suspect that a great salary helps attract/retain - but (and I'm not a rockstar coder who has to worry about this) - but out of the FAANGs, Facebook on the surface looks to be the least interesting.
There's the big social media silo and the Oculus and Whatsapp acquisitions - but nothing I look at and think "it would be cool to work on that".
Just feels similar to some of the old guard like ebay - a dominant company that makes and I'm sure can pay well, but nothing I'd cut off my left arm to work on.
- qualifiedeephd 4y ago>Facebook on the surface looks to be the least interesting. lol. i work on compilers at FB. it's like being a kid in a candy store. edit: and in comparison to google (not sure about amazon and ms), it's a much more open culture regarding technical reporting. maybe it's surprising, maybe it's not, but internal communications are done over workplace i.e. FB (so FB for FB). that means i can see all manner of technical writeups from all parts of the company, and i can immediately reach out to people (chat) and quickly learn about new things. just imagine, thousands and thousands of experts in their area, working on high tech, a chat away. and i'm not even just meaning SWE type people - i've chatted at length with some of the machinists at that support prototyping for oculus. it's not utopian (often times you can't get an answer from someone when you need it) but it's pretty great. when/if i leave for another FAANG i will definitely miss that.
- goldcd 4y agoI stand corrected - think my obvious flaw was just judging from what's observed from outside. You're completely right that it's the internal processes that mainly affect your job enjoyment.