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    <pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 06:08:04 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Server-Side Magazine: 10 Questions with Facebook Research Engineer - Andrei Alexandrescu]]></title>
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The Server-Side Magazine site has posted <a href="http://www.serversidemagazine.com/news/10-questions-with-facebook-research-engineer-andrei-alexandrescu/">an interview (10 questions)</a> with <i>Andrei Alexandrescu</i>, a research engineer currently working at Facebook.
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<blockquote>
Today we caught up with Andrei Alexandrescu for a "10 Question" interview. He is a Romanian born research engineer at Facebook living in the US, you can contact him on his website <a href="http://erdani.com/">erdani.com</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/incomputable">@incomputable</a>. We will talk about some of the juicy stuff that going on at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a>, so let's get started.
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<p>Their questions include:</p>
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<li>What's your development setup?
<li>What do you think of PHP as a language from your perspective, regarding that Facebook was initially written in PHP then transformed to C++ using HipHop for PHP. What are the pros and cons of using C++ over PHP at Facebook?
<li>Currently, what kind of research do you conduct at Facebook? (or is this confidential?)
<li>Tell us a little bit about the D programming language, in contrast to C, PHP, Ruby and others. In what fields can someone apply D?
<li>Also, what kind of advice can you give for developers who are considering to apply to Facebook? What kind of skills is Facebook looking for in a potential candidate. Is it really important to be a graduate CS? What kind of skills do the majority of Facebook employees possess?
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<a href="http://www.serversidemagazine.com/news/10-questions-with-facebook-research-engineer-andrei-alexandrescu/">Read the full interview</a> for his answers to these and other interesting questions.
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:56:09 -0600</pubDate>
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