Ask HN: Job at Facebook or Google, which would you take? 14 years ago
If you want to work on large-scale reliable systems, get your code reviewed by top-notch engineers, and live a happy life of a grown man, go to Google. If you want to code some PHP at 2 AM in the morning and watch it hit production by noon, go to Facebook.
Facebook lives by "move fast, break things" principle, which might be appealing for software engineers who love seeing their code live quickly, but must be a hell for infrastructure engineers who get paged in the middle of the night when things break.