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I do ios for FB and it’s horrendous. Extremely long build times, dated tech stack (we can’t even build widgets since it requires SwiftUI and we’ve pushed back on swift for 5 years because of ‘app size’ issues (in reality millions of lines of tech debt). Don’t join FB to work on iOS here. Stay away. No transferable skills after you leave and every day you’ll want to pull your hair out. Because it takes ages to develop even small features, FB will get killed by completion eventually.
We have a ton of tech debt in iOS too.. I imagine many other big companies do too
It’s one reason we can’t do innovative things anymore. It takes so long to move and morale for iOS engineers is low.
I’ve heard the same for iOS at LinkedIn
This is quite common in big tech companies. I worked at smaller companies and they were always on top of reducing tech debt/moving to newer versions of/ newer languages (e.g Objective-C to Swift, Java to Kotlin). In big tech, such migrations don’t get you promotion or good ratings and there’s always the race to launch more and more features 😒
Yup my managers don’t understand anything and I’m a new grad given senior tasks since we are short objective C senior devs. After 10 years this short term mentality is going to hurt
If not fb, then who?
Hold my beer
You haven't seen the worst until you have seen salesforce core app.
There is a shit storm here
you are not allowed to say anything bad about FB on Blind. FB will and have to beat Tiktok and other CCP spywares.
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Salesforce has been like that forever and is still kicking as well
I agree with OP, used to work at FB. The code base is a huge mess and people are in a huge rush to keep adding more. Plus the PSC cycles every 3 months are stressful
did you actually work here? because PSC cycles are not 3 months
I am also taking into account the mid point review is in the middle of PSC. It was a continuous grind.
Just one person’s opinion, and wrong at that
Hey OP, can I DM you? I’m considering joining FB to do iOS (have an offer already). Would love to hear more about it.
Hey What’s your decision?
Zillow Group - did you join fb ?
Hah. Hack/php is even worse as a transferable skill. Nobody else uses php outside fb
At least one thing I learned was how to use the debugger on Xcode to a high proficiency. Outside of that I doubt Much will transfer
PhP is literally banned here lol