Ex-Google. Joined FB during the pandemic. So much π©-software, ever piece if the repo you open up is worse than the previous. Nobody cares about maintainability, extensibility of the code. It works on my sandbox, π’ it! Blow up the story to score more impact points.
The dev tools are antiquated. For occasional coding it is quite ok tbh. For hardcore all day coding the tooling is awful. The custom remote server code editor breaks every 30 mins on something. It is awful. For anything but php you only having syntax highlighting, no auto complete, no debuggers, nothing. For mobile it takes a day to checkout the code base and local compile is insane.
Have been talking with Apple recruiter. Apple sounds totally siloed. Seems you need luck to land the right team. Iβm ok with a 20% pay cut for better WLB, tools that make me productive and a somewhat sane code base.
Should I pursue it? Or keep enduring FB?
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FB offered more money, faster environment and level up out of the box. I can match the level, but the engineering practices are insanely bad. Everything looks like a time bomb. Leave the code alone for 3 months and it will fall apart by itself. The opposite of Google.
I hate the productivity loss. At Google I wouldnβt be able to get to L6 by being a coding machine. At FB Iβm one of most productive coders, yet the tooling holds me back at a mere 25% of my Google output. So I love the chains of process have been taking of, I hate I have been given a blunt utility knife instead of a professional knife set.
There is a lot of praise for better engineering cross all of infra. It needs it. But⦠the end impact of that is low. So I personally improve things that I touch or I come across consistently. Sadly, mainly in the hack code base, some other engineer massacres my efforts a few months later by bolting something horrible on again.