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No-no, this is not about passion. When one joins Facebook this does not mean he or she works on "social networking", it means he or she works on a tiny portion
by throwthrowaway 12y ago
No-no, this is not about passion. When one joins Facebook this does not mean he or she works on "social networking", it means he or she works on a tiny portion of a massive Facebook's codebase, implementing, say, a layout of a targeted ad for Chinese users.
I don't want to say anything is wrong with Facebook in this situation, it's just a company with a huge product and 7000+ employees. You are almost guaranteed to be re-inventing the wheel "Facebook way" there.
- tonteldoos 12y agoFrom personal experience, the bigger (or more structured) the company, the more likely it is that you will be actively discouraged from straying too far from your assigned bit of work, either by doing it differently, or taking on a tangential problem in the codebase. This essentially kills, over time, any desire or ability to 'make a problem your own', and you run the risk of becoming just another code monkey.