Compensation is the biggest pro. Also, unlike other hire to fire companies (most tech companies at this point in 2024), you at least have a chance to prove yourself and are given a couple months to onboard. There are worse tech companies out there such as Amazon and Intuit, but Meta’s culture is still quite terrible. They try and justify the long hours and stress with how much you can make - Meta still pays more than any other major tech company, even in 2024, which is definitely a pro, but the culture is cutthroat and you can’t trust anyone. It would probably be easier to work two remote jobs at “less prestigious” tech or tech adjacent companies to make the same amount at Meta with more stability, better WLB, and less drama.
Pretty much the same as what one would experience at most tech companies in 2024. But some aspects are better or worse than others. Long hours. WLB is highly team dependent. Apparently Meta used to be a lot better in this regard, but now not so much. It is intense, but if you have startup experience, it is at least less intense than that. And again, it is more fair than a place like Amazon. Office politics are a thing at all tech companies, but a little more extreme at Meta. Blame and shame culture is big. People are snakes and are prepared to throw even the newest and most vulnerable employees under the bus to save their own skins. This makes things quite unfair, but as long as you’re proactive and document everything thoroughly, you’re at least given a chance to refute these attacks. A lot of gossip and backstabbing. This is separate from and still related to PSC culture, which everyone complains about. Management is terrible overall. Sometimes there is micromanagement. One of the few companies where it’s possible you’ll have a manager younger than you, even if you’re only 27-31ish. Often ICs seem to be held accountable for things that are way beyond their day-to-day scope - basically things that are ultimately the fault of leadership and management. Management frequently tries to pin things on their employees. Your manager is often trying to screw you, and if they can’t find a way, they are often trying to invent things you did wrong. This isn’t a dealbreaker because as long as you’re doing your job, it is easy to refute, but it creates a ton of work because you have to be extremely well-organized and have documented every interaction with your manager colleagues. I recommend studying employment law / consulting with an employment lawyer early on in your tenure at Meta, so you know what to look for. Because it is a massive tech company, you are there to please your manager and make them look good, so you need to do pretty much whatever they say. there’s a lot of internal conflict because it’s very authoritarian, also fairly draconian, and it’s bottoms up at the same time, every man for themselves. Do everything your manager says and it is somehow still all up to you as an individual employee to make the company successful. To top it all off, your colleagues suck too. People brag about work that YOU did as being THEIR work that THEY did if it is successful. If a project involving multiple people is so much as an hour late, then YOU are blamed, even if you had nothing to do with the lateness. The lateness itself isn’t really the problem because guess what? It’s not anything is broken. Except for when things do break and the whole app crashes for a day because everyone is forced to focus on office politics instead of their actual work. it’s not really about the value you create, so much as it is the PERCEIVED value you create and whether or not your manager likes you. Ergo, a lot of bootlicking charlatans make it to the top.
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/02/886544638/we-have-a-black-people-problem-facebook-worker-claims-racial-discrimination
The company plays the same psychological mind games they do with their users, with their employees. They very clearly laid people off with gender and racial bias but give the impression people have hope to come back. No. You don't. The ex Meta groups are filled with people who even got past rounds...Read more
Is it a coincidence? https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-misinformation-public-60-minutes-2021-10-03/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/technology/facebook-down.amp.html
all things considered which would you take? location = Boston yoe=12 fb = 190k base 15% bonus 500k rsu 20k sign on twitter = 185k base 20% bonus 475k rsu 20k sign on fb = famous for hire and fire culture with large # of wlb and stress complaints on blind and glassdoor twitter = virtually no wlb c...Read more
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/13/meta-cut-on-purchases-despite-apple-complaints/
Hey I am TLM at google Planning to join Facebook Main reason is comp increase (40% increase) and more interesting project But I heard lots of complaints about bad culture, bad wlb, can’t take vacation and so on For people who moved from G to FB, especially senior IC or EM, can you share your stor...Read more
Bytedance blind is always talking about our share price/complaint about poor wlb or culture #faang #google #facebook
What will be next after this? Facebook whistleblower alleges executives misled investors about climate, covid hoaxes in new SEC complaints https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/18/whistleblower-facebook-sec-climate-change/
Yoe: PhD + 1.5 TC: 250k Role: SDE FB offer: 50k signon + 290k TC Role: SDE Complaints about Apple: nothing much other than near zero perks. Job security is great, team is awesome and laid back.
When I was at FB, its blind channel was full of complaints about crappy code, bad wlb, high stress, etc. and folks advising to switch to Google, Airbnb etc. for a better life. I was there for 4 years, was fed up with the hectic life and moved to Google. Now on Google’s blind channel I see folks co...Read more
Considering a job offer at FB... currently at eBay where I’m a super duper top performer. FB technology, perks, culture all seem far superior, pay is comparable, but my WLB at eBay is cake. I’ve heard lots of complaints about cut throat competition and poor WLB at Facebook so creating a poll to se...Read more
Hi all, I just finished an on site interview at Facebook for a data engineering role. Tech 1 - messed up 1 question but everything else was great. Tech 2 - went great. No complaints Behavioral - generic behavioral questions. It went fine. Tech 3 - had a great discussion. I think I did ok. What are ...Read more
Hi everyone, Been doing some more research on FB before I decide on the offer. I've been seeing a lot of posts about "PSC" and complaints about the "PSC culture". Can someone please explain what these mean? Also so far from taking to employees and reading posts I've gathered: - Facebook engineerin...Read more
random pictures of groceries, gym, bay area views, bay area complaint images, somrone installing windows 11, someones slow internet speed, and a panda express. and then there is one story with a random pic of some girl in a bra that has the most likes... literally the most lame content you can imag...Read more
Considering all the leaks about vile and immoral things happening at Facebook, would you accept and offer from Facebook ? - Facebook has been allowing anti Muslim hate content to spread throughout India - Facebook ignored internal complaints about the spread of posts with political misinformation le...Read more
I see a lot of complaints about our TC 🥜 What’s being discussed in your company’s channel on Blind? No poll here. Please comment #google #meta #amazon #apple #netflix #lyft #uber #airbnb
Anyone notice in the last week sometime that workplace was updated to no longer show everyone’s hire date/ length of time at Meta? You used to be able to look at anyone in the company and see how long they’d been working there as well as a stat saying “worked at Meta longer than 8% of employees” et...Read more
At Amazon we have a constant battle where 100% of employees feel underpaid/incorrectly paid based on external offers vs. tenured salaries in the same role. Do Google, meta, Microsoft, apple also feel the same or do you have better comp policies and lesser complaints given the refresher policies TC:...Read more
We see complaints and know shitty things about working at Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Oracle...... But I have never seen a thread about bad things at Google. Is it because Google is perfect, or because Google is well known to be the best place to work and people don’t speak up about bad things?
What is the leadership perspective on the WLB? Any internal complaints or effort to address it? Interested in the product and project area, but already half way burnt out at Uber. Hesitated to do another round of hustling. TC:420 @Facebook