Started working in April.

- I work with the most talented people I've met, by far. These people are crazy smart and experienced. Nobody slacks, everyone's valuable and productive.

- I'm challenged in my daily work. It's never boring (I work on an internal tool that's very complex). All my previous jobs have been "plop features on this CRUD app". I'm positive this is one of the best places to become a highly competent software engineer as fast as possible.

- Comp is nearly double my previous job. After being on the inside, seeing how it's run and how competent everyone is at their job, I'm also pretty bullish on the company's future and stock price.

- I get to write Rust daily. It's still in early stages of being supported at FB but had a decent following and should be well supported soon. Developer experience is extremely important to me and Rust is just great to work with.

- My manager is great. Very empathetic and I trust him with any problem I have, he always does his best to solve any issue I bring up.

- Internal mobility is great. I'm thinking after a couple years on my current team I can go work on VR, Rust infra, Pytorch, or whatever else seems interesting, anywhere FB has an office. Can go full remote after one more promo.

- The company is structured so that incentives are fairly well aligned. All the organizations I've been at previously had problems with this. It's not easy to game the system or be too self-serving here.

- Internally, dissenting voices are not silenced. There's a healthy discourse about the company's decisions, people are very free to bash it or Zuck without fear of repercussions.

- I think that the hate FB gets is somewhat deserved but not to the extent that HN believes it is. There are a lot of media stories that are exaggerated or plain false (example: FB does not sell your data to anyone), but I'd only know that because I get to hear both sides of the argument. There's also a perception of neglect or malevolence that is associated with FB, but the truth is that solving every single problem with running a social network is incredibly difficult and despite FB's size, it's not possible to make everyone happy. Example: conservatives complain that FB is censoring them unfairly, progressives think FB isn't doing enough to counter hate speech. Finding the perfect balance is virtually impossible. We've also come a very long way since Cambridge Analytica, there's a ridiculous amount of resources being put towards making sure there are no privacy violations. FB is the least popular big tech company but I don't think it's any less ethical than Google or Amazon.

- I also think FB's benefit to the world is largely underestimated by HN. Reducing friction for finding and maintaining human relationships is incredibly important. We're also loved by small businesses, countless companies may not exist without FB advertising.

- It's the only big tech company that would give me the time of day. I probably work have taken a Google offer if I had the choice.

I intend to be here for a few years, at least.

That's not to say it's all good: FB infra is all in-house and breaks often. Hack (PHP with a type system duct-taped on) sucks, is totally proprietary, and is everywhere at FB. The company steals product ideas from other companies. It's secretly more or less stack ranked, so there's a lot more stress than other companies. I'm very wary of who I tell where I work given the negative sentiment.