I don't see much evidence of what the title says in the article. It just is based on anecdotal evidence. This is on par with a blog post by some random person. I'm surprised SFGate would publish this.
The Director of Engineering at Facebook is not just some random person.
yes, it is a random person. an engineer in facebook is also a random person. what you are confusing a random person with is person on higher rung of career ladder
to the people who downvoted: downvoting is not the way to say you disagree.