‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Computer Science Students

Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by gehsty on Friday November 16, 2018 @11:19AM (#18469659)

Downvotes but no responses... But seriously, its already built to a huge scale, its core product that people actually use (newsfeed / apps) havn’t changed in years(functionally - I’m sure the code base has..). is it the appeal of working on a product used by a significant proportion of the worlds population or just working at a huge company?

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Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by deanmoriarty on Friday November 16, 2018 @12:57PM (#18470484)

Downvotes because to be honest your response sounds either incredibly clueless, or incredibly arrogant/condescending (I wasn't the one who downvoted FWIW).

Here for a preview of something that is completely led by Facebook due to their scalability needs, and that most small/mid/large employers would never have the resources to fund, or the need to pursue: https://code.fb.com/open-source/linux/

All these projects have had major contributions during 2018, so not everything has been "figured out" yet.

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Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by gehsty on Friday November 16, 2018 @01:51PM (#18470969)

Hi, thanks for the information, I did not mean to be condescending, definitely completely clueless! The interesting thing is building the tools that lets you run a platform the size of Facebook. Cool.

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