I'm pretty sure none of my friends who are CS majors would want to work at MySpace--they're all aiming for positions at Google, Facebook, or Amazon. As a designer (not sure if this counts as engineering at MySpace...) I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to work there.
Would you want to work at MySpace?
I think working at the biggest social networking site in the world could only be a positive thing for your technical growth.
Not to mention it seems like a good place for people networking.
fwiw i work at a web 0.0 company tho so my standards are ridic low
-work there to make the connections
-get a high paying salary
-quit after a year
-and sell them a new piece of technology making yourself millions of dollars
Yes, they run IIS, but I don't see why that matters; I'm not paying for it :)
and they are releasing their own platform now arent they ?...
They run the site on IIS?
For scaling up I find this a facinating article on MySpace http://www.baselinemag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=198614,00...
I have been focusing on collaboration and communication for the last 5 years but now I need to monetize it and turn it into a business. I am tired of starving :)