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Facebook

Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment. Facebook is a part of millions of people’s lives all around the world. Facebook is a privately-held company and is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.

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"Best job in life"
Huge impact, first-class product, first-class team
October 4, 2008 by jwang
Facebook allows you to affect the lives of over a hundred million people around the world. The job is intense, with lots of short iterative cycles and challenging problems. We recognize that nothing is ever permanent, and everything can always be improved. I've had the opportunity to work in...
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"Best job in life"
The place to be an entrepreneur
October 4, 2008 by davefet
small team
fast iteration
big company advantages
lost of users
architectures
learn a lot
open source
be an entrepreneur



Anyone can go rent out a garage in California, install a preconfigured LAMP stack, snag a domain name and call themselves a web entrepreneur. The attractive part...
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"Best job in life"
Best job of my life? TRUE
October 3, 2008 by ywong137
If you want to work at a place where you can show off what you've built to family and friends, or have random people on the street say "You work at Facebook? I love Facebook!" when they see you in a Facebook t-shirt, this is it. The team is also relatively small (~150 - 200...
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"Best job in life"
Challenging and Fun
September 25, 2008 by mjk
Working at Facebook has been an amazing experience. The product is seen by an extremely large, enthusiastic userbase. Engineering teams within the company are really small, so each person has the opportunity to make a big impact and own some really amazing systems. The culture within the...
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"Best job in life"
Smart people, challenging problems
September 24, 2008 by rsm
After having worked several years in a large internet company, its refreshing to be in an environment as open as Facebook. It is hard to find such a unique combination of excitement of a startup with the stability of a large company with an established user base of over 100 million.

The...
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"Best job in life"
Facebook, the benefits of a startup without the drawbacks
September 22, 2008 by mcslee
Simply put, I think Facebook is one of the best places for both technically and product-minded people to be able to make a huge impact on the world around them in a short period of time. Facebook retains many of the benefits of a startup company (relatively small team, really fast iteration...
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