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One way to look at this is to say "Hah, how shameful." The other way to look at this is to say "Hah, clearly business success isn't a function of code quality"
They aren't nearly as strongly correlated as many developers might like to believe.
> This leak is not good news for Facebook, as it raises the question of how secure a Facebook users private data really is.
I don't even think I need to comment on how poorly this has aged.
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Dynamic programming questions are explicitly not used in current Facebook interviews. From time to time, Facebook and other companies study the effectiveness of their hiring process by comparing employee performance and interview performance. I believe dynamic programming questions were removed because there was not a strong link between success in this question and future performance.
This sounds very counter-intuitive! Did you hear this from someone working at Facebook or did you read it online? If it's the latter it'd be great if you could share a link!
> Worth preserving as part of Internet history. Can't Facebook just issue a takedown request and have these files removed?
This code's as valuable as a Blockbuster card by now.
Amazing that they initially wrote this code and now to join FB you need to answer questions based on backtracking and dynamic programming. :) I wonder if they could do the questions themselves back then.
I didn't read it carefully and I don't know much PHP, but is the code really that bad? There's all kinds of worse code out there running everything. As long as it's relatively well organized, you can worry about refactoring as you scale up.
By the standards of 2007 PHP this is good code, and today there's probably lots of worse PHP being written (even if the community as a whole has moved on quite a bit).
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I want to be clear: I don't care, and I doubt Facebook cares. But legally, I think this code was stolen. Facebook owns the copyright to the source code, so copying and distributing is theft in the same way that copying and distributing database contents is theft. But again:
Your definition of theft is wrong. Legally, this was not stolen.
I know specially the film and music industry put a lot of effort to equalise those terms in the media, yet they remain two separate things.
Amazing that they initially wrote this code and now to join FB you need to answer questions based on backtracking and dynamic programming. :) I wonder if they could do the questions themselves back then.
Dynamic programming questions are explicitly not used in current Facebook interviews. From time to time, Facebook and other companies study the effectiveness of their hiring process by comparing employee performance and interview performance. I believe dynamic programming questions were removed because there was not a strong link between success in this question and future performance.
> // Holy shit, is this the cleanest fucking frontend file you've ever seen?!
One way to look at this is to say "Hah, how shameful." The other way to look at this is to say "Hah, clearly business success isn't a function of code quality"
> Hah, clearly business success isn't a function of code quality Mind you, early Facebook wasn’t exactly a “tech business”—the code wasn’t making them any money, such that having a bug in the code would make them less money. Really, Facebook only became a “tech business” once they got into 1. Messaging, and 2. Advertising. Then they had SLAs, and breaking those SLAs meant losing users/customers; and their ability to…
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Dynamic programming questions are explicitly not used in current Facebook interviews. From time to time, Facebook and other companies study the effectiveness of their hiring process by comparing employee performance and interview performance. I believe dynamic programming questions were removed because there was not a strong link between success in this question and future performance.
This sounds very counter-intuitive! Did you hear this from someone working at Facebook or did you read it online? If it's the latter it'd be great if you could share a link!