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.
is inhouse innovation dead in facebook? inhouse: fb acquistions: insta whatsapp ocular what are other popular fb products come from inhouse ? #engineering #software
Which of the big tech is the best if I want to work on new innovation as an engineer?
Leaving the political debate on their data collection and sharing. Is Facebook still a company for engineers to get opportunity to innovate? #tech #facebook
At first glance the intention behind giving and receiving feedback seems very noble and essential to development. But what was intended to be a meaningful strategy has become an obsession that hinders innovation and creativity and in some cases productivity. When you constantly receive feedback at e...Read more
Google and Facebook are heavily engineering led with PM having minimal impact. Amazon has a much stronger product manager & customer culture.
Could anyone explain to me why Amazon/Meta stocks keep rising while Google/Apple stocks are steadily trending downward? I don't understand. No offense, but being honest, stock prices are proportional to earnings or innovation, and I haven't seen any innovation or significant earning increment from...Read more
With all the big tech companies offshoring their teams to India and other APAC, what will happen to Silicon Valley? Will innovation be shifted in Asia or do we think it’s mostly just engineering teams doing grunt work? I know of product teams in Silicon Valley that got laid off and are now hiring ...Read more
Seriously, since the launch of facebook, the company has released 0 innovations (even fb wasn’t an innovation). Google, Apple and Amazon has released tons of stuff since their inception, but fb has done nothing. So what do you guys build all day? Are you working on new products that actually matter...Read more
Did they just go up because they reduced a lot of loss? Layoffs, Reducing real estate foot print Cutting out metaverse and just going back on their FB, Insta route? There is no innovation … why meta? Somebody please educate me? #meta #tech
Large tech companies like Google and Meta who primarily focused on innovations are running out of ideas to make more money so they have decided to focus their creativity on cutting cost. They should start by cutting C-suite salary and bonuses
2012-2014 Facebook, Google 2014-2017 Netflix, Airbnb, Uber 2018-2021 Fintech, Stripe, Square 2022+ Crypto, Web3, Metaverse? What is the next big consumer innovation?
😂.. and it begins https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/facebook-parent-meta-platforms-cuts-responsible-innovation-team-11662658423 Tch tch Meta.. TC:560k Ex-meta, ex-google
After a decade of the tech industry sitting on its hands with minimal innovation, it’s nice to see companies competing with each other again Apple vs Meta Google vs OpenAI YouTube vs TikTok Nvida vs AMD
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/technology/personaltech/tested-facebook-reels-tiktok-clone-dud.html What happened to actual innovation at FB? Seems like all they do is knock off Snap and TikTok.
1. FB is going the way of Yahoo. 2. Insta is solid but how do you advertise more there? 3. WA is a barren wasteland. Literally zero innovation here. 4. AR/VR? LMAO. Is it even a real business? Who actually has good ideas at Meta? Zuck clearly doesn’t have. #meta
This morning Mark Zuckerberg shared a blog post updating Meta's "Year of Efficiency." Part of the update is another round of layoffs in April 2023 following initial cuts made in November 2022. One of his objectives in flattening the organization is speeding up innovation with many managers now focus...Read more
Seems the entire tech sector now is more or less ROI and cuts happen on the go even though companies have been making record profits. having too many mba’s have ruined the innovation and companies now have become completely profit and loss vs focusing on enng and innovation? Just a take. MBA’s don’...Read more
With Netflix down the shitter and Facebook becoming Meta, it’s time for a new big tech acronym. I present to you MAGMA: Microsoft Apple Google Meta Amazon. Wheres my $200k TC? #innovation #impact #tech
“If you have been affected by the recent layoffs at #meta or #google, we have positions open in an innovation led Fortune 30 technology organization.” #layoff #tech https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottmillerusn_job-cuts-are-hitting-big-tech-quietly-activity-6980668029093236736-Qr74?utm_source=s...Read more