Why Working at Meta is Bad for Data Engineers
5 min readJan 30, 2022
I have to come clean — I build data pipelines, but I’m not a Data Engineer; at least according to some top tech companies. Over the past few years at one Silicon Valley company, I’ve worked with many Data Engineers. To be more specific; varying roles who deliver work commonly aligned with data engineering, such as writing code to build data pipelines. We’re in a time period where data engineering doesn’t have a…