What technical skills have you gained while working at Meta?
Apr 20
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A perk I keep on seeing on Blind for Meta is career growth. What technical skills have you learned at Meta? Both skills that are company specific and that transfer elsewhere are interesting to hear about.
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1) They really do get to hire some of the best engineers. I.e. the average engineer around you is very good, and some are very very good. Working with them, you can really learn what good engineering looks like, and start to adopt those practices etc yourself.
2) At these big companies especially, you get to see what a great implementation of different systems looks like. Logging, DB, internal tools, programming languages - these are all things that FB and G have entire teams of hundreds of engineers dedicated to, and have for years. At this point, their implementations are best in class, and you can see up close what that looks like. Of course, if you, say, left and went to a startup, you'd never have time to reimplement all of it on your own. But seeing a great impl serves as an excellent north star of what these systems would look like given infinite time and resources - and then you can ask yourself how you can best aim for 80% of that benefit with 20% of the effort.
Source: worked at FB, now work at alphabet