[ericlippert]

I am very thankful for that opportunity. I learned so much from my colleagues! And they were genuinely great people to work with.

I was well compensated, it's true. It's also true that for every $1000 I was paid, I lowered FB's costs by about $4000. The argument that I should be eternally grateful to Zuck for allowing me to keep a quarter -- before taxes! -- of the profit that accrued to him for writing zero lines of compiler code while he keeps the other three quarters is maybe not the strong argument you think it is.

[defen]

Why did you work for him if you weren't happy with the arrangement? Surely you had other options. You're one of the most talented people in one of the most highly-paid/profitable fields, one with very few institutional barriers to advancement (licensing, accreditation, educational requirements, etc). You made a bad deal with the devil, and now you're upset about it? You were either willfully ignorant of, or did not care, about the ill effects Facebook has on the world. You just wanted to work on cool tech shit and get paid a lot of money. Why should anyone look at your experience as anything other than a cautionary tale?