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Facebook trusts its engineers.

We get free food, access to technology as and when it would help our job, a good working environment, and the ability to regularly move from team to team to prevent burnout and ensure that we've spread our knowledge widely.

Lots of flexibility in working hours helps, too.

You need to take a good grip on your work-life balance. If you want to be first in, you'll be arriving before 7 am, while if you want to be last out, you won't leave before midnight. There's no one who'll necessarily stop you being both first in and last out.

Keep track of the jealousy that's beginning to show up. There are cases popping up on internal messaging systems where, stripped of the fancy language, people are basically saying, "Those guys want/are taking something; surely that can't be allowed?!"

Better to emphasize that we can afford to provide what people need.