[Gollapalli]

Does SWE mean software engineer?

I've never gotten that offer (or applied, for that matter), so I don't know what I'd actually do in your shoes. But if I got the offer, and thought that I could really do it and give my all, then I would. The kind of credibility you get is the same sort that you get having gone to Stanford, or Harvard (also things I haven't done). It's proof-of-intelligence, if not proof-of-intelligent-life. Do you have other offers at places that are more in line with your morality, or a start-up that's just burning in your soul to be born? If not, I'd take the Facebook job.