Yes, not sure, yes, yes, sure, i'm not sure if that's through. Yes it's a serious question. I find it interesting to hear why people get so excited by this. I'm saying that I wouldn't (not in this life), but I like to hear why others would. Nothing wrong with that right? You answered my question somewhat, although I believe that you might not land like that; Facebook is not big, but a new person in a crew of 3500 doesn't sound like you're going to get those large responsibilities or those enormous resources or that large salary. And yes, successful or not i'll leave to the trolls.

Everyone who writes code at Facebook has "uncommonly large responsibilities"? Really? How does that work?

Addressing both replies: Facebook continues to have perhaps the highest ratio of users (choose a metric if you wish) to engineers, quite possibly by a large margin. I believe that's a good proxy for responsibility.

reddit, pinterest, and craigslist come to mind as probably having a higher ratio. Instagram too, before Facebook bought them. Edit: And OMGPOP before Zynga bought them.

All attractive places to work but not sure any have higher ratios (except Craigslist perhaps, which has its own peculiarities).

I believe all those companies are above 1M users per engineer, my estimation for FB was just under that. Is my estimate for FB way off?

The most recent estimate I saw was 1.3m users/engineer and steadily climbing. And if we take active users, the gap is even greater. And none of those other companies would enable an engineer's work to get in front of 100s of millons of users.

With 900m users, a ratio of 1.3m user/engineer would mean only 692 of their 3500 employees are engineers. That seems low to me. I'm also having a hard time imagining their ratio is growing, their monthly percentage growth has been steadily slowing down, I doubt their hiring has been slowing even further.