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Would you work at MySpace?
After reading the article today about MySpace's new SF office, I started wondering how they're going to hire 200 engineers.
I'm pretty sure none of my friends who are CS majors would want to work at MySpace--they're all aiming for positions at Google, Facebook, or Amazon. As a designer (not sure if this counts as engineering at MySpace...) I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to work there.
Would you want to work at MySpace?
- utnick 19y agoWhy would you not want to work at myspace? I think working at the biggest social networking site in the world could only be a positive thing for your technical growth. Not to mention it seems like a good place for people networking. fwiw i work at a web 0.0 company tho so my standards are ridic low
- myoung8 19y agoMy impression as an outsider has been that they are a slow-moving company, whereas Facebook moves incredibly fast. It just seems like it would be a lot more exciting to work at Facebook if you had the choice.
- donna 19y agowhat if... -work there to make the connections -get a high paying salary -quit after a year -and sell them a new piece of technology making yourself millions of dollars
- iamyoohoo 19y agoI have a friend that works at myspace in beverly hills - and has high respect for the team there - and let's not forget that they still get way more traffic than facebook. From a pure tech perspective, why would you not work there ... and they are releasing their own platform now arent they ?...
- andreyf 19y agoFrom a pure tech perspective, why would you not work there ... They run the site on IIS? http://myspace.com/ http://myspace.com/!
- gscott 19y agoIIS & Sql Server 2005 For scaling up I find this a facinating article on MySpace http://www.baselinemag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=198614,00.asp http://www.baselinemag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=198614,00...
- Zak 19y agoI would advise caution if emulating any technical aspect of Myspace. As far as I know, the site still has a very high rate of errors compared to other high-traffic sites.
- gscott 19y agoI believe it is unusual for a site to get as much traffic as MySpace does. I don't believe I will ever come near that because they really are going after the lowest common denominator. I have been focusing on collaboration and communication for the last 5 years but now I need to monetize it and turn it into a business. I am tired of starving :)
- kogir 19y agoSo, I know nothing about the atmosphere there but from a tech perspective it'd be pretty sweet. They handle quite a bit of traffic and must have interesting problems of scale. My guess is that I could learn very much from it. Yes, they run IIS, but I don't see why that matters; I'm not paying for it :)