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Passion breeds ideas, innovation, and impact. This is the foundation of Facebook's product engineering team. Facebook consists of a large family of products and features built by people with a passion to help us achieve our mission of making the world more open and connected. From Facebook Pages that help people, brands, businesses, public figures and many others to engage with people, to Games, K-12 Personalized Learning Plan, Amber Alert, and Safety Check, Facebook products enable people to connect and share the things that matter the most. Engineers who work on these products are responsible for building them from concept to launch, and iterating beyond. Depending on the product, this requires strong knowledge of a mix of disciplines including computer science, data analysis, and user experience.

We're are excited and proud to share that Facebook has been named the #1 Best Place to Work in Tech and #2 overall on Glassdoor’s 2017 list. The rankings are based entirely on the feedback and reviews that people who work at Facebook share directly with Glassdoor. This would not be possible without the effort of our amazing Facebookers – people who work together to connect the world and make meaningful impact every day. Here are some reactions and stories from our teammates who shared their experiences working at Facebook.

I started as an engineer on the ads engineering team, over time, I became really passionate about how businesses use social media to grow, and I worked on a number of projects at Facebook, around that theme. I had come from the start-up world, so I needed to learn how to be effective at a larger company, and the people I worked with were really helpful with that, there is a strong culture of feedback where people see it as their job to give and ask for feedback a lot. I started managing at Facebook after a few years and really appreciated the leadership development at Facebook, I had a lot of blind spots that people at Facebook helped me through as I learned to manage and lead larger teams. I wound up having the opportunity to move to London to help us grow the office there and have really enjoyed the chance to understand more about leadership within global companies.

I never saw Facebook as a company to work at, even though I used the platform almost every day. But after seeing there were so many opportunities on their careers page I decided to dive a little deeper into working here. What struck me the most was the reason behind why Facebook is such a global community. Being a vital connection between so many people and businesses is exactly what I was looking for. I was searching for an international environment, with people from all over the world, in an international city with good connections, plenty of challenges still to solve and the autonomy to work on what you’d like to do. Facebook is all of these things and I couldn’t be happier with my choice of applying to become a part of Facebook.

It’s pretty hard to pick just one thing, but it would probably be the extent to which I was looked after and provided for. It’s amazing how much clearer you can think, and how much more you can get done, when you don’t have to worry about the little things like: “How am I going to find an apartment?”, “What am I going to eat today?” or “What am I going to do for fun this week?”, because that’s all being provided by the company you work for. I really like the fact that Facebook makes sure there’s nothing stopping you from achieving your goals during your internship – it’s like the ultimate test to see what you’re really capable of when there’s no obstacles in your way.

Facebook's Small & Medium Business (SMB) Analytics Team is based in Menlo Park and comprised of people from many different backgrounds including Statistics PhDs, Economic Consultants, Business Analysts, Marketers, and more. We thrive off of the differing backgrounds of each analyst which promotes a culture of diverse thought where different perspectives and ideas are encouraged. Although our backgrounds may vary, the one thing we all have in common is a strong interest in applying our analytical background to solve business problems.

Hear from Philippa Snare, Facebook’s Director of Business Marketing on step changing your career.

After 16 successful years at Microsoft, full of amazing opportunities to develop by taking on new roles it struck me that unless I suddenly became a different person and started to under perform, the company would not ask me to leave. It was an alarming thought. It was like someone had turned the light on for me. If I am to seek new and challenging experiences in my life and career I’ll need to be the person that kicks myself out into a new world. So that’s what I did.

Facebook's data centers are among the most advanced, energy-efficient facilities in the world and feature the latest in hyper-efficient Open Compute Project (OCP) hardware. It's our hope that an open, disaggregated network stack will enable a faster pace of innovation in the development of networking hardware and software, and ultimately provide infrastructures that are flexible, scalable, and efficient. When building this technology, we have several guiding principles: