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How did you come to believe that Meta doesn't have engineering chops? They have done so much cutting edge engineering work I don't even know where to start.

Think what you want about the company itself, but they've done a shit ton of amazing engineering work.

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I worked at a startup where everyone was ex meta! They made such a shitty architecture with GraphQL and Hasura and other meta technologies they learnt that it was laughable they were using that for a small startup.

GraphQL and Hasura is... totally reasonable for a startup? We used same at a 12 person startup, way faster and cheaper than the shitty MVP API service we were limping along with.

Also Hasura is not Meta tech afaik.

It's not that there aren't great engineers at the FAANGs. It's that there are a lot of low quality ones. So it's a poor lake to fish in.

Isn't that true for engineers in general and not just engineers at FAANGs?

Right. In some sense, it's just a population reversion to the mean. But I've had better luck with my hiring once I've excluded FAANG-only engineers from the resumes I screen.

Considering we pay about $350k for a fresh grad, I think I know why this is.

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