Are Facebook engineers really smart?
I have seen many people whom I would not consider very smart, making it to Facebook. Yet, Facebook is the F of FAANG. Are they really smart to be working at Facebook or is the special thing about working at Facebook is the great compensation? Just today saw the news of fb having 3 world wide outages this year, already. And the positive Glassdoor reviews seemed to be fabricated. What's so special about working at Facebook? Is it really a certificate of tech. prowess or accomplishment?
Leets baby, leets.
Maybe that's why
Team/role specific, not all have to be smart
Same as eBay I guess, lot of dumb fucks but then lot of smart people as well.
No. They bound by the law is statistics and Peter Principles.
It's like any company. Hire a ton of new grads to churn out code. Have really smart people directing that stuff. The smartest people I know are all on the infra side anyway.
Because the smart guys dont want to be writing react garbage
FAANG has nothing to do with 'smart' people... But that being said, there are smart and dumb people at every company. I had a friend in college who didn't know how to write loops until his junior year since he cheated his way up. As a new grad, he got into Facebook as a DE because he cheated on his interviews. So YMMV
not at all.
I worked in Facebook till recently. On an average they are smart. The controversies surrounding Facebook suck and affects the morale. But its still one of the best companies to work for engineers given the tools, infra, people, learning, comp, benefits, Visas for immigrants, culture and the value acheived by having it on ur resume.
Luckily there are no dummies at MSFT.
Smart enough to store passwords in plain text.
That was in one set of logs 🙄 it was a mistake, but not like the password db was all in plaintext.
Yeah. They reverse the password before storing in DB for additional security.