Re:Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinte...
by pb7 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @09:00PM
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So what? They're an enormous engineering company with many millions of lines of code. Bugs are expected.
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Re:Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinte...
by Apocryphon on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @09:12PM
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Those criticisms aren't about mere bugs, but a bloated over-engineered iOS apps with far too many classes (18k back in 2015) [0]. The Android app was also previously notorious for patching Dalvik at runtime to deal with the huge number of Java methods [1].
Granted, perhaps things have gotten better in the last five years.
It's certainly possible for an enormous engineering company to have poor code quality or poor engineering practices, despite having a high interviewing standard. And a criticism of Facebook need not be a criticism of all companies that interview by Leetcode, for instance no one here is criticizing Google, Amazon, or Apple, and all have better reputations for code quality.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/6upeu6/how_...
[1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...