Re:The new way to land a job at Facebook
by furyofantares on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @02:31AM
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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.
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All attractive places to work but not sure any have higher ratios (except Craigslist perhaps, which has its own peculiarities).
Re:The new way to land a job at Facebook
by furyofantares on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @09:20PM
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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.
Re:The new way to land a job at Facebook
by furyofantares on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @11:17PM
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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.