I’ve been at Facebook 6 months now and I’m still struggling with the culture. For a company that sells itself on being fast paced there’s a really unpleasant mix of overly complicated processes and a challenge to find clearly documented answers. I’m used to tech start ups (some not so small) so I have no issue with a lack of processes and thinking for myself. But when I’m told there is a specific way of doing most things I don’t expect to spend days trying to find the answer or rely on asking others who all seem to have various different answers. This tied in with the fact that there seems to be a lot of people equally as confused as me and not really achieving anything is really making me question whether I should move on. I’m 6 months in and feel my career is moving backwards not forwards and all the stress is coming from BS rather than exciting challenging work. Anyone else in this boat? Does it get better within a year?
Remote
Here’s your issue. Try to go to MPK as often as you can. Make a ton of friends there. Keep contact via Messenger. Seriously try to have a list of 20 people there and actively ask them how are things, and spark a conversation every week. Be super-supportive of their work on Workplace. What you feel is super normal for remote. Some people in MPK know this, and most will help you out.
Also, post some thoughtful stuff (about your projects or something you’re interested in) to internal groups at least once a week to get to know more people and then connect to them in person while you’re in MPK, which should be at least once a month. Oh, and you might want to join a couple of hackathons.
FB sucks balls, come to Uber
Yeah, it's grown like many other companies. It's adulthood of companies!
Honestly a lot of large corps you feel like you don’t accomplish anything for the first 6 months due to how much complexity you deal with and the learning curve. I work for a startup now but used to work for a huge company and they didn’t give you a performance review for the first 6 months basically for that very reason.
I’m guessing that you haven’t worked at Amazon. Your fate is established at the 6 month mark.
This is what happens when a company is cash rich and grows unnecessarily large ... that said. Relax, enjoy the slack.
Just to be clear. You are uncertain how to do your job, but unwilling to ask for help. 👍
Only uncertain. OP is asking for help but keeps getting different answers from people.
Come to Netflix
Same feeling at msft
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Real question: are you in MPK or a remote office?
Can you comment on Seattle or Austin at all? Are they not as good?
I don’t think the people there are less smart, certainly not on average. The smartest people I know were in Seattle. But your ability to grasp the company, find the right person who built the key tools, or simply find someone available and knowledgeable are reduced in a smaller office. There are upside, but OP’s description is symptomatic of a remote office. Showing initiative, raising points loudly, selling yourself can help. It’s far from ideal, I recognise.