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.
Someone is harassing my family members by sending threatening emails from various FB profiles and deleting them once messages are sent. This is happening in India though. Looking for advice.
My manager is the " Golden Child" of our VP and he is one of the most disrespectful /impulsive/erratic person I've met in my career . Unfortunately, no one under his reporting structure can go to HR or skip level or VP as it's like a friends group at the top . It is so unfortunate to see such behavi...Read more
Not sure if this is true. So take it with a grain of salt. https://nypost.com/2021/08/04/facebook-exec-helped-cuomo-smear-sex-harassment-accuser-ag/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/18/instagram-facebook-child-sexual-harassment
I'm a man. Worked for Facebook for a few months. Got sexually harassed by a married female colleague. I was single at the time. Harassment mainly involved questions on my sexual life, compliments on my physical appearance and the occasional touch/rub on back/shoulder. For me it wasn't a big deal ev...Read more
Currently Senior software engineer at Microsoft. YOE: 5 Manager harassment. Internal mobility freezed. Instead of fighting planning to switch asap. On an H1B Competitive programmer, can do LCs meds easily and hards on most days Won't let the referral go waste DM/comment if you can provide a refe...Read more
Currently Senior software engineer at Microsoft. YOE: 5 Manager harassment. Internal mobility freezed. Instead of fighting planning to switch asap. On an H1B Competitive programmer, can do LCs meds easily and hards on most days Won't let the referral go waste DM/comment if you can provide a refe...Read more
https://www.recode.net/2018/2/28/17064254/facebook-sheryl-sandberg-me-too-mentors-wall-street-bankers-morgan-stanley I thought this article was really interesting because I did notice that I pick coworkers to go to launch parties, work trips, lunch who are not female because I am worried about pote...Read more
https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-google-engineer-alleges-harassment-and-retaliation-nyt-op-ed-2021-4 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/opinion/google-job-harassment.amp.html What do you think of the ex Google, current Facebook engineer who went on a rant against Google in h...Read more
Well, you all know Elon is coming now. I really like Twitter's chill WLB, friendly culture and nice perks. I heard Tesla and other Elon's companies don't have a reputable culture for treating employees well. Is that true? Any horrible stories to share? How bad could it be? Is it Meta style (fat pay...Read more
I’ve seen a lot of posts recently about reporting workplace issues to HR. These issues include workplace harassment, discrimination, unreasonable expectations from management, management lying about you, management threatening to fire you if you don’t do xyz, etc. Many of us view HR as a “neutral...Read more
Sure it has its fair share of cringe but it’s tolerable and it gets the job done. We don’t have all the PR issues like Facebook, instagram, TikTok, twitter, etc. You go on the platform and you face zero harassment. You want a job? Jump on LinkedIn. Want to network with REAL people? Get on LinkedIn....Read more
Hello, I am a SWE at FB and this is my first team. I had a very good rapport with the manager I started off with. Recently, he hired another manager under him and I am reporting to the new manager now. The new manager doesn't have enough context about me and searches for reasons to nitpick on the wo...Read more
So I went on a Reddit sub (r/CFB) and wanted to tell my story about a time, a few years ago, when a mod on that sub got so mad at me they doxxed me and then added my wife on facebook to send her threats. The mod team got upset at me bringing it up and called it bullshit (it happened tho), so I call...Read more
Tesla is one of the most evil companies today... In 2017 and 2018, as some workers sought to form a union at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company was paying a consultancy, MWW PR, to monitor employees in a Facebook group and more broadly on social media, ac...Read more
I provide mentoring to several ppl who graduated from the same college as myself. This allows me to learn into how various companies, including Amazon and Meta, treat their employees. While certain lesser-known startups may subject their employees to unfavorable conditions, I'm specifically referri...Read more
My cousin has an h1b visa. He wants to switch jobs and he was able to get offers from both Facebook and Google (in the bay). Yay! He got a copy of his background check where, expectedly, his past convictions show up. It doesn't seem like there's anything significant. He has various small violatio...Read more
"What the fuck are you doing? Why the fuck isn't it working" Travis yelled as he loomed over the engineer responsible for dispatch. It was late 2012 and Uber was experiencing one of its normal outages. Buckling from the weight of tremendous growth, Uber's software infrastructure was consistently giv...Read more
TLDR - Title I am in WA state. I was provided no training or onboarding after I joined. I struggle with a few health issues that I was open with my manager about. I have a neurological disability that went undiagnosed until very recently. This combined with no training left me trying to figure it...Read more
TLDR - Title I am in WA state. I was provided no training or onboarding after I joined. I struggle with a few health issues that I was open with my manager about. I have a neurological disability that went undiagnosed until very recently. This combined with no training left me trying to figure it...Read more