The site we all use everyday is built by a relatively small group of the smartest engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world who are each making a huge impact on the 400+ million people using Facebook. The ratio of Facebook users to Facebook engineers makes it so that every engineer is responsible for more than one million users, and that potential for impact is unrivaled in technology (10-30x that of other technology companies).
At Facebook , we move fast and are constantly challenged to scale quickly and efficiently. Our rapid development cycle is supported by tools that always keep us operating ahead of the curve and it’s common to write code and have it running on the live site a few days later.
We’re also hiring brilliant software engineers from around the world for full time positions and internships. Send your resume to talent@facebook.com.
Facebook @ Workshop on Real Life AI Applications
Presentation: Brains and Beauty: AI at Facebook
Speaker: Andrei Alexandrescu
It’s fun, it’s big, it’s popular: Facebook is the second most trafficked site on the Web with over 400 million active users and growing. Such a scale poses formidable challenges and equally big opportunities for creative solutions. Smart computing is needed not only for distributing the load to available servers, but also for facilitating automated “understanding” of people’s behavior to the end of making Facebook a better facilitator helping people to connect and interact. This talk discusses some of the most difficult challenges we are facing, how we are working towards achieving them, and what day-to-day work and life is like at Facebook.
Guests
Andrei Alexandrescu
Research Scientist
Florin Ratiu
Software Engineer
Liviu Ciortea
Software Engineer
Sarah Kurien
Engineering Recruiting
Kinh DeMaree
University Recruiting
Andrei Alexandrescu works as a Research Scientist for Facebook. He has garnered a solid reputation in both industrial and academic circles through his varied work on libraries and applications, as well as his research in machine learning and natural language processing.
Andrei coined the colloquial term “modern C++”, used today to describe a collection of important C++ styles and idioms. His eponymous award-winning book on the topic, Modern C++ Design (Addison-Wesley, 2001) revolutionized C++ programming and produced a lasting influence not only on subsequent work on C++, but also on other languages and systems. With Herb Sutter, Andrei is also the coauthor of the award-winning C++ Coding Standards (Addison-Wesley, 2004).
Since 2006, Andrei has co-designed D programming language, wrote a large part of its standard library, and authored the upcoming book The D Programming Language (Addison-Wesley 2010). Andrei holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington and a BS in Electrical Engineering from University “Politehnica” Bucharest.
