After reading the article today about MySpace's new SF office, I started wondering how they're going to hire 200 engineers. <p>I'm pretty sure none of my friends who are CS majors would want to work at MySpace--they're all aiming for positions at Google, Facebook, or Amazon. As a designer (not sure if this counts as engineering at MySpace...) I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to work there.<p>Would you want to work at MySpace?
Why would you not want to work at myspace?<p>I think working at the biggest social networking site in the world could only be a positive thing for your technical growth.<p>Not to mention it seems like a good place for people networking.<p>fwiw i work at a web 0.0 company tho so my standards are ridic low
what if...<p>-work there to make the connections<p>-get a high paying salary<p>-quit after a year <p>-and sell them a new piece of technology making yourself millions of dollars
So, I know nothing about the atmosphere there but from a tech perspective it'd be pretty sweet. They handle quite a bit of traffic and must have interesting problems of scale. My guess is that I could learn very much from it.<p>Yes, they run IIS, but I don't see why that matters; I'm not paying for it :)
I have a friend that works at myspace in beverly hills - and has high respect for the team there - and let's not forget that they still get way more traffic than facebook. From a pure tech perspective, why would you not work there ...<p>and they are releasing their own platform now arent they ?...