> Building in languages like PHP, JS, Java, and to a
> lesser extend Perl and Python, means you have access to
> lots of cheap devs. Especially in the case of PHP and JS.
Given that PHP and JS is what Facebook's stack is written in, does this mean that Facebook pays below market salary and they're taking advantage of all those cheap devs who could instead be raking in the money at a C# company?
I imagine 'coding in PHP' is quite a lot way down the list of requirements to work at FB. There are much more important skills, like being able to write code that works at scale. That isn't the case for most startups - prior experience of the tech stack is right at the top.
