Facebook Engineers Start Re-Writing The Site On Their First Day Of Work

The first day at a new job is usually pretty easy. You can expect to fill out some paperwork, grab lunch with new coworkers, and perhaps do some light training -- but usually not much more than that. But that's not the case for new employees at Facebook. Engineers starting at the social networking giant are tasked with writing new code for the site on their very first day, according to a 2013 VentureBeat story. The exercise is part of Bootcamp, a six-week onboarding program for new engineers. T...