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.
This has many merits imho. 1) Meta would benefit from Googles infra 2) Google would benefit from Meta's social media and AR dominance (and metaverse in the future, bonus portion) 3) Meta culture would bring energy and competition to Googlers 4) Both companies can do a nice consolidation layoff and...Read more
Both companies rival meta in different facets of the metaverse and complement each other. If they were to merge, would that challenge meta?
Have any orgs been merged? What was the update? Joining meta soon Tc: 250k
When you joined meta did you make a new fb account for work or did you merge your personal one. Pros and cons for both? #meta #apple #google
I am back once again…again. Meta let go of their engineers this week. Sundar merged Deepmind with Google. Is tonight the night we get emails from papa Sundar? #layoffs TC: 370k YoE: 4
What I do not understand is how a British regulatory agency can stop a US on US merger from happening 😂🤣 guess it's just not meta's week/month/year https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/meta-told-to-sell-giphy-by-regulator-6041090 #meta #merger #faang
Then Elon will swoop in and merge Twitter with Meta to create the ultimate social media conglomerate accessible only to starlink
Could Meta buy Intel? Rumor is that strategy consultants at Bain are working with Bill Gates through his foundation to help merge Meta and Intel. Gates and Zuck are close. Gates used Intel to beat Apple. And he has handed Zuck a roadmap to beat Apple. The layoffs at Meta and Intel are to prep for Me...Read more
Hey everyone, As a Software Engineer with 7 years of experience, primarily in web development, I've started preparing for Meta/Amazon. Here's my plan: 1) Complete the LeetCode data structure exploration course (1st month) 2) Dive into System Design videos by Martin Kleppmann (2nd month) 3) Enro...Read more
I feel like I am a bit burned out from tech lately, my last couple of gigs have been at big companies (Netflix, Facebook) and I am kind of tired of corporatism and empire building within it. I have also worked on smaller start ups and companies and it has not help my satiety. I do enjoy interestin...Read more
Does anyone remember there was a site called Glassdoor? People used to view the company rating there. Then they acquired a company called fishbowl. They tried to merge their app with the fishbowl app. Now it seems it has become a complete mess. I tried to open the app after almost 12 months. It did...Read more
Recently received an offer from FB. I'm a full stack engineer with stong react and Java knowledge. I know FB is based on React for web and Hack for backend. Would like to know how is the standard of the react and Hack codebases. Do you have good tests, coverage report and coding standards? How is th...Read more
What are your thoughts on Shazam acquisition impacts on Facebook , google , amazon , Snapchat and Microsoft . Are we going to see more mergers and acquisitions in the coming months ?
Elon and Zuck cage fight But then they fall in love 👨❤️👨 Meta and Twitter merge their assets and we all live happily ever after 💙
Everyone says dont remember solution of problem. But some problems ( even easy ones) have very specific solutions/algorithms. E.g. problem 88 in leetcode. (merge sorted array) Should such solutions be remembered? What do you folks suggest? #google #leetcode #faang #meta #amazon
Hi folks, I had meta screening today. 1. Candy crush(Removing adjacent characters in a string) I wrote a solution with n*k complexity. Which i believe is right , but i mentioned time complexity is n^k where n is size of string and k is possible number of crushes 2. Array merge with output containin...Read more
The works of people at DeepMind seems pretty cool imho, and it seems dumb to force them to focus on LLM. And Gemini seems like another Google Plus… Any insider interesting story to share? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/googles-ai-panic-forces-merger-of-rival-divisions-deepmind-and-brain/?u...Read more
Hi all, i was laidoff recently due to a merger. Currently on H1b and have been applying left and right for jobs but no luck. Reaching out to you all for any referrals/leads for sde/full stack/data/azure cloud roles. Would appreciate any help😞 TC: 0 YOE: 2 #referrals #Netflix #Google #Meta #Amazon...Read more