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I love facebook. I hate other big tech companies. Facebook has done far more for software than any other company in the last 15 years. They: 1. Pushed salaries
by ldjkfkdsjnv 3y ago
I love facebook. I hate other big tech companies. Facebook has done far more for software than any other company in the last 15 years. They:
1. Pushed salaries up across the board. Many people are not aware, but facebook was a major driver behind the 500k+ senior engineering pay.
2. Released major open source software: PyTorch, React, GraphQL, React Native. They basically invented modern web development.
Facebook is basically the only game in town when it comes to open source. Whatsmore, Mark Zuckerberg should be more widely applauded. I know his open source ai strategy has capitalist roots, but its still great for the world.
- colordrops 3y agoNetflix is similar along these fronts.
- 7thaccount 3y agoI think it's fine to applaud their pro open source behavior, while still being critical of the ill they've released upon society. Cambridge Analytica and spreading mob violence in some countries come to mind.
- vermilingua 3y ago> They forced the whole industry to pay up. And now we have industry-wide layoffs and a massive cooling of the job market. > They basically invented modern web development. Which is essentially a non-stop carosel that encourages cargo-culting and factory-farming of interns from boot camps.
- ldjkfkdsjnv 3y agoSo what, you would have preferred low pay all of these years?And you think React wasnt an improvement? Its been out for a decade now, the trope that javascript frameworks churn alot is not true anymore
- kelnos 3y agoI personally benefited from the high pay, but I don't know if we can definitively say that the average developer is coming out of this better, after all the layoffs and belt-tightening.
- isatty 3y agoAbsolutely. I don’t use Facebook the social media platform, or instagram, and I only reluctantly use WhatsApp - but Facebook as a company for software engineering seems excellent. They also seem to genuinely take care of their employees (this is of course an outsiders perspective).
- ldjkfkdsjnv 3y agoThey pay well and promote quickly
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- airstrike 3y agoDon't forget LLaMa
- colordrops 3y agoWasn't llama initially a leak?
- Kubuxu 3y agoAFAIK it was released to "researchers" behind submitting a survey, someone filled out the survey and put it on torrents. There was no way it wouldn't leak.
- sockaddr 3y ago> Pushed salaries up across the board. Many people are not aware, but facebook was a major driver behind the 500k+ senior engineering pay. I think this was because anyone who is principled doesn't want to work for them. They have to pay more.
- ldjkfkdsjnv 3y agoNo they pushed the engineering salaries up. None of the employees at FAANG think this way
- SteveDR 3y agoWould feel similar if they weren’t the absolute worst in terms of privacy. And if they didn’t buy out the best VR commercial tech and tie it to FB. Can’t use the Quest or Raybans headsets without logging in to the panopticon.
- phyrex 3y agoYes you can
- b0r3datw0rk 3y agoI think its pretty myopic to only view facebook through the lens of the benefits theyve provided software engineers. Facebook is a pure cancer on society
- nmfisher 3y agoI don’t know about salaries but “the only game in town when it comes to open source” is flat wrong. Google open sourced Tensorflow, Flutter, Dart, Filament, Microsoft open sourced ONNXRuntime, Olive, WavLM, F#, .NET, NVIDIA open sourced TensorRT, NEMO, etc etc. At the end of the day, the company that pushes clickbait to sell ads is probably the one I trust least.