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.
idk but 100% of instagram in the last 3 years is the same and the stuff on fb is junk anyway whatsapp is probably the one that makes progress oculus is too small
Received this email from Meta today: "Because you’ve previously used Nearby Friends, Weather alerts, Location History or Background Location, we’re letting you know that these products and features will no longer be available after May 31, 2022." Further read: https://www.facebook.com/location_his...Read more
Facebook folks, how do you feel about cloning all these Snapchat features in every one of your apps? It feels like every day Facebook crams another Snapchat feature into one of their apps. Disconnected camera + stories features now exist in Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and I believe WhatsApp. Thes...Read more
Let people follow others without being friends. And give users @ handle. Boom, you covered Twitter use-cases as well. Meta PM, you are welcome.
Thinking of making the leap from Twitter to Facebook, but worried about losing my ability to generate external impact along the way TC 285 YOE 4
Sundar said to Mark that he was impressed by the AI work being done by Meta. Mark had no clue what his team were doing. After that compliment from sundar he went all in on AI and stock went up 5x. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-01-11/mark-zuckerberg-pivots-to-ai-from-metaverse-to-furt...Read more
The Vision Pro announcement is great for Meta: - Vision Pro comes out late next year - Meta has almost a year to copy all headline features - Vision Pro is for the 0.1% Meta Quest will eventually be 80% as good, and captures majority of the market while 5-7x less expensive. Bullish for $META. TC 4...Read more
What do you do as meta e6? Mainly code? Or drive features? Or lead projects? What percentage of the work is coding? How many hours per week do you work? TC: 500k
Bytedance introduces new app or features so rapidly while Meta doesn’t seem to have new or exciting ones. Threads is flopping, VR/Metaverse is going nowhere. Can Meta survive? Are goverments gonna do anything about Bytedance? TC: 120k EUR nontech 7 yoe
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People working at Meta- Has Meta been developing any new features for Facebook anymore or is it a dead product on sinking ship? #Meta #Facebook
I do ios for FB and it’s horrendous. Extremely long build times, dated tech stack (we can’t even build widgets since it requires SwiftUI and we’ve pushed back on swift for 5 years because of ‘app size’ issues (in reality millions of lines of tech debt). Don’t join FB to work on iOS here. Stay away....Read more
Refresher was quite low. TC for 2024 is $230K at 2 YoE as L3 SWE. Seeing all these TPMs at Meta making $900K is making me sick. Your job is to literally manage a spreadsheet and follow up on bugs for features that you have no technical knowledge about. How do I deal with this feeling?
Title says it all. I see so many simple features broken on YouTube app and instagram. All those Algo coding rounds just to hire terrible developers that can’t code simple features. What’s the difference then? I am a Frontend engineer and don’t understand why faang ask LC. #faang #leetcode #intervie...Read more
I work at a HFT (not Cit) and have interviewed a bunch of Meta employees. They have impressive claims on their resume (boosted engagement by X%, saved Y% in capacity, removed Z% of bad content, etc). However, when you actually ask them questions about their work they know nothing. I had one intervi...Read more
..Is everything OK? Feeds and other features appear hard down. TC 230 #instagram #meta
Intern here. Got a full time offer. However I am not very enthusiastic about the full time offer. The way I look at it is that Facebook already has 2 Billion users. It is already built. The only work engineers do is maintainence and adding stupid features like balloons in the air on clicking the 'C...Read more
The app is already made. Insta is working fine, fb is and so is whatsapp. What more new features would engineers add? Is it more of maintenance? I don’t see room for adding new features in these apps. It’s already too cluttered. My proposal is they layoff 75% of workforce and keep the remaining for ...Read more
Help guys. I love my girlfriend dearly, but she works at fb and has drunk so much koolaid that sometimes its unbearable. Tonight i casually mentioned that fb is copying snapchat features as a way to crush snapchat and she got offended 😭😭😭😭 “no fb is original in what they do. You cant prove that ...Read more
I heard about this from many ex-FBers. 1. Poorly documented in-house tools. 2. The API is inferior to public clouds. 3. Too many half baked features due to impact related stuff. #facebook