From 61c1d792f6359121dd7f0014c1b742dfee879b6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yangshun <tay.yang.shun@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 15:46:12 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] blog: update FB career Q&A post --- .../2021-08-19-facebook-career-questions-and-answers.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/website/blog/2021-08-19-facebook-career-questions-and-answers.md b/website/blog/2021-08-19-facebook-career-questions-and-answers.md index 2c09624a..d9b9f6db 100644 --- a/website/blog/2021-08-19-facebook-career-questions-and-answers.md +++ b/website/blog/2021-08-19-facebook-career-questions-and-answers.md @@ -275,12 +275,12 @@ Nit - Hacker Way is not in San Francisco, it is in Menlo Park. Perhaps you meant - Projects - Primarily product teams and hires primarily SWEs and EEs, while FB US has a good mix of teams, including infrastructure teams and hires across all roles. So if you're interested in working on infra stuff like our internal logging framework, GraphQL, our internal ORM, you'd have to look at non-SG offices. - Changing Teams - SG has fewer teams, so if you were looking to change teams but remain in Singapore, the choices are more limited. - Company Culture - You don't get to attend the events held only at the HQ in-person, such as Zuck's Q&A or company town halls or the summer and holiday parties (but there are local versions of them). -- Food - Smaller selection of cafes. Food is still pretty darn good though. There's nothing to complain about free food. +- Food - Smaller selection of cafes in SG. The food is still pretty darn good though. There's nothing to complain about free food. - Office - Smaller office in SG, but still one of the coolest in SG. Menlo Park Headquarters is amazing, there's an arcade, board games room, a barber, ice cream shop, a gadgets vending machine, and more. It looks like Universal Studios at night. I'll just leave this [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY3sMN3wohg) here. - $$$ - FB pay is top tier in both US and SG. However in SG, you have to pay less tax and cheaper living expenses. In SG, I earn less but save more due to the large difference in taxes. - Taxes - SG tax is crazy low compared to US. US taxes you on every damn thing, including the capital gains from your stocks and bank interest earned (WTF), but SG doesn't. -- Engineering Culture - Similar-ish because quite a number of engineers in FB SG moved here from FB US, including myself. But being a smaller office, we don't have extremely senior engineers (no principal and higher). -- Social Security - I thought Bay Area was relatively safer than the smaller US states, but these days [driving on the highway also can get shot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ybiHCxNb3w), so I don't know anymore. I think SG is definitely safer, at least you definitely won't kena any racist remarks or comments while walking on the streets. +- Engineering Culture - Similar-ish because quite a number of engineers in FB SG moved here from FB US, including myself. But being a smaller office, we don't have as many extremely senior engineers. +- Social Security - I thought Bay Area was relatively safer than the smaller US states, but these days [driving on the highway also can get shot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ybiHCxNb3w), so I don't know anymore. I think SG is definitely safer, at least you definitely won't receive any racist remarks or comments while walking on the streets. - Personal Happiness - Obviously you'd have fewer friends and family if you're in the US. If that's important to you then life there might be hard. But you can make new angmoh friends or hang out with the steadily growing SG community over there. - Dating Scene - If you're single, it might be hard to find a long-term partner there. The female Singaporean engineers there are mostly taken, those that are not, probably want to stay single. Dating there will be quite hard! I know of friends who got together with Americans/immigrants and then they get a green card and plan to stay there for good. You can consider that too.