I just had an interview with Facebook and I was pretty underwhelmed with the problems they said they were solving.

I know they operate a complicated system, but optimizing a large scale massage board doesn’t seem that exciting.

Are there teams working on interesting technology outside of social media?

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What about a large scale massage board doesn’t pique your interest? Certainly piqued mine.

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Table shop boys gang gang

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Mmm massages 💆‍♂️

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Go to companies that have a large R&D spend / invest in a lot of out-there projects. FB prob has some too, you were prob interviewing with the wrong team.

A&D and Advanced Manufacturing industries probable also have more exciting projects that are directly associated with the company’s money makers (but this is really subjective)

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I promise that your typical startups don’t do anything much more interesting.

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^true. Often you are just giving up the consistency, order and established processes of a bigger firm.

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It was a general engineering role. I’m doing more research as I go through the process. Thanks all for the responses

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Large scale massages. Sign me up!

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Depends. What are you looking for?

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The cybersecurity and privacy teams do really cool work, but they won't consider you without hard technical experience

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BCG that sounds interesting. Sorry, The work I’ve done as a consultant has been pretty technically challenging and impactful but I’m exhausted from the hours.

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A&D, additive manufacturing, drones, space companies, just to name a few

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@OP you should be able to find many more roles that align better with you are looking for at FB. There are other teams like Portal, Oculus and Libra you could explore that are still growing. What role did you interview for ?

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If it's a general eng role, you go thru Bootcamp where you can match with a team that suits your interest.

Your framing obviously makes the opportunity seem unattractive.

Think bigger:
- FB ads help small businesses get share of voice
- FB shops helps retailers impacted by COVID continue with commerce
- FB groups create community and unites people
- Messenger rooms provides a platform for video calling

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Perhaps try a start up with more problems to solve and things to build with each person carrying more responsibility

But also would like to see that large scale massage board (kidding)

Do you do anything more interesting at McK on the whole

There a lot of interesting startups or things in the fintech space that are interesting. But it's hard to beat the comp of companies who try to get you to click ads.

Oculus if the VR space interests you...

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