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I did some contract work for FB around when this article was written. I don't think that nobody cares about clean code. It's more like... results will vary widely based on who reviews you. And the governing philosophy is more focused on the automated checks and balances that try to keep you from doing harm to the overall system. While human code reviews were pretty lax, the machines would slap you around for all sorts of things, none of which would force you to write beautiful code.

Personally, I like for humans to be pickier than they seemed to be at Facebook, but it really opened my eyes to the value of what I think of as a "keep your garbage in your own trash can" approach to quick-and-dirty coding. As long as you didn't spill your trash into the hallway, the machines were satisfied, and your reviewer didn't find your work to be _insane_, your work shipped.

[EDIT: And I find that this can often be a wonderfully pragmatic way to work if you have the tools to keep you from doing harm.]