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I'm in awe of the clickbaity title here. I seriously doubt Carmack is going to start hacking in PHP or something.

Facebook doesn't just do web development and analytics.

Their datacenters alone are big enough to warrant hardware engineers for their custom servers and switches, facilities designers, ex-HVAC employees, et cetera. (http://www.opencompute.org/)

This is obviously a serious acquisition, and Carmack's talent no doubt played a small part in it.

Explain again why "employee" in the title makes this clickbait?

Because it makes it seem like he's just another peon, rather than the CTO of a subsidiary. I know that Facebook requires a very diverse set of skils/positions in order to run, it just seems kind of hilarious to say John Carmack is now a Facebook employee :)

I didn't think Bryan O'Sullivan would be Hack-ing PHP, either.

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