'The Boy Kings': 6 stories from a Facebook employee

Author Katherine Losse shares 6 of her stories from behind-the-scenes stories from her time at Facebook.

4. Pay disparity between engineers and support

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Losse says that many engineers for the company were paid upwards of $80,000, while she and other support staff were paid $30,000 a year. "The Harvard guys were less careful with money, because they didn't have to be," she wrote. "While not typically flashy, they liked to take limos to party in the city or go wine tasting in Napa. Photo albums of these trips would always show up on Facebook afterward, full of pictures of engineers in dress shirts and ties lifting champagne glasses and rolling around on the floor of the limo, smiling with glee. I went on one Napa limo trip and, a week later, upon receiving my three-hundred-dollar share of the bill from one of the Harvard engineers, I realized that I would ... have to find other ways to have fun."

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