[fdgsdfogijq]

By now they are so big that engineering is not as important. But 10/15 years ago, engineering was definitely number one

[jimnotgym]

Thiel arrived in year 1. Sandberg in year 4.

Facebook has been an investor led organisation from the beginning.

[fdgsdfogijq]

Facebook has produced the best open source software seen in the last 20 years. React basically solved front end frameworks, and pytorch steam rolled tensorflow.

[jimnotgym]

So what? The quote above says that not being an engineer will stop promotion...It is clearly not true.

The fact this structure can still produce good software is neither here nor there.

[disgruntledphd2]

> The quote above says that not being an engineer will stop promotion.

Speaking as a DS who knows a lot of FB people, this is totally true. If you have a product team deliver something cool, the engineers on that team will normally (modulo variability) be rewarded a lot more than the DS people. Sometimes PM's get some of that, if the product is very successful, but the variability is lower and the mean is higher for engineers at that company (apparently).

[fdgsdfogijq]

Facebook rains money on engineers that produce value, more than anywhere else in the industry. Clearly you don't know about this

[joshuamorton]

Did anyone on the board get promoted within Facebook?

[nojito]

All startups are investor led organizations the moment they take on and raise capital.