FB Infra culture
I am having a conversation with one FB recruiter who wants me to apply for a job at FB Infra. There are several positions that match my experience - Linux kernel, hardware bring up, firmware dev... I want to learn more about this group. What is the culture there? Are their projects fun or boring? Any team recommendations and anti-recomendations? Anything else to know before applying there? Targeted level is E5 8 YOE, 5 at google TC 340
So far did not get any team recommendations for Infra. Are there any good teams with good managers and interesting work?
Don't join Facebook. They are an ethical nightmare. If your only goal is to maximize your TC, go ahead though. Unrelated to the ethical issues, the main issue I got with their infra is that they don't use a single upstream project. The decided they are too smart and rewrite everything standard into their own stack. You will come out of there not knowing anything that the industry considers as standard.
What exactly standard did they rewrite? Afaik they actively use Linux.
Yea they use Linux, but they rewrote some of their Network stack. You will also not be using standard containers or Kubernetes, but something called "Tupperware"