Exactly! The people you work with are far more important than the tech.

I'm assuming that after the bootcamp they would put you on a team based on your interests and aptitudes. For me, having a choice - or at least feeling like I have a choice - over teams and projects is empowering and exciting.

In other companies, you have that choice during recruitment. Here, you need to basically trust that they won't screw you over ("Look, it turns out that the only opening we have that matches your skills is maintaining this internal CRUD app for HR - but no worries, stick with it for a year and maybe something better comes along!").

But that would be evidence of a bad engineering culture. Which is United has said is not true. So we can probably assume they meant FB's bootcamp is more about placing their engineers on teams they would enjoy and are good at, most of the time.