Facebook employs many software engineers but isn't inventing much in software
React, Jest, and GraphQL (among many other projects that I'm less familiar with) were created by Facebook, many of which heavily altered the way that people do programming in the relevant domains. Without knowing what exactly you mean by "inventing" in software, I think you'd have a hard time arguing that they're done none.
Many of the large tech companies have similar contributions, depending on what sort of work they're doing. It's not even just large tech companies - a num... (read more)
React, Jest, and GraphQL (among many other projects that I'm less familiar with) were created by Facebook, many of which heavily altered the way that people do programming in the relevant domains. Without knowing what exactly you mean by "inventing" in software, I think you'd have a hard time arguing that they're done none.
Many of the large tech companies have similar contributions, depending on what sort of work they're doing. It's not even just large tech companies - a num... (read more)