I think I will receive an offer to work on Instagram and I have been thinking for a while. Yes, Facebook is a great company with great benefits, amazing perks and some of the brightest engineers in the world work here.
But, on the other side, Instagram is just an app for posting photos (in a nutshell). I am aware that they work at a very large scale and may have a distributed system with hundreds to thousands of microservices. They might do ML, big data analytics. Yes, that app gets complicated because of the scale.
But I, as a regular engineer, am I going to have the chance to do some interesting work? To me it looks like Instagram has reached its full potential (feature wise). I am afraid they might spend a lot of time on internal tools, or fixing stuff and too little on writing features from scratch. Hope to be wrong.
And the tech stack, what if I get to work with php. Say that I stay here for 5 years doing php. Then, when I want to leave I either have the option to go to another fang or to regular php company (which in general they work on not so cool stuff, WordPress etc)
Is the work at facebook one that will make you grow as an engineer?
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