[lonesword]

> Facebook is widely hated and embarrassing to work at.

Not sure it's widely hated (disclaimer: I work there), despite all the bad press. The vast majority of people I meet respond with "oh how cool!" when they hear that someone works for the company that owns Instagram.

"Embarassing to work at" - I can count on one hand the number of developers I've met who would refuse to work for Meta out of principle. They are there, but they are rarer than HN likes to believe. Most devs I know associate a FAANG job with competence (correctly or incorrectly).

> Could Facebook hire away OpenAI people just by matching their comp?

My guess is some people might value Meta's RSUs which are very liquid higher than OAI's illiquid stocks? I have no clue how equity compensation works at OAI.

[pm90]

Within my (admittedly limited) social circle of engineers/developers there is consensus that working at Facebook is pretty taboo. I’ve personally asked recruiters to not bother.

[999900000999]

Honestly I’d be happy to work at any FAANG. Early FB in particular was great in terms of keeping up with friends.

I’ve only interviewed with Meta once and failed during a final interview. Aside from online dating and defense I don’t have any moral qualms regarding employment.

My dream in my younger days was to hit 500k tc and retire by 40. Too late now

[dmoy]

> defense

By defense do you mean like weapons development, or do you mean the entire DoD-and-related contractor system, including like tiny SIBR chasing companies researching things like, uh

"Multi-Agent Debloating Environment to Increase Robustness in Applications"

https://www.sbir.gov/awards/211845

Which was totally not named in a backronym-gymnastics way of remembering the lead researcher's last vacation destination or hometown or anything, probably.