You'd have been just a cog in the machine at Facebook anyway. If you listen to some of their seasoned engineers speak they seem to take great satisfaction from

You'd have been just a cog in the machine at Facebook anyway. If you listen to some of their seasoned engineers speak they seem to take great satisfaction from delivering some inane and tiny little web app feature, seeing it through a year of testing, and seeing it in production. Whilst I'm sure that is satisfying if you've never known any different. It sure as hell isn't anywhere near as satisfying as building and scaling out a product or service of your own or one in which you are vested. The article is well written but you really shouldn't put Facebook on some sort of pedestal. Especially after two years, it seems like you still feel sore about it. It really isn't "all that" to work at Facebook. Do you really want to write PHP all day, for example? For an engineer it is more a bragging right and CV fodder than anything else.