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 Instagram listening to your conversations in order to drive targeted advertising? I got in an argument with a friend who claims this is true. The more I think about it from a technical perspective though, maybe it could be done.. does anyone know if they do?
Noooooooo. LEAVE me alone. Instagram is the LAST place I want to be thinking about LinkedIn StaHHHhhHPPppPpp
I don’t know what’s going on but my spouse and I have both randomly started following people on instagram. Spouse mentioned it yesterday because they are super aware of everyone they follow for security reasons and I noticed it happen today. I viewed a comedians story in the search feed did not clic...Read more
https://www.audience.co/company/# This ad just poped on my IG and they are advertising this with 90% read rate. Its just disgusting 🤮
After being laid off from Meta I decided to start a business and I am advertising on TikTok and Instagram to gain a customer base. Does anyone have extra dogfood credits that they are not using and are willing to run ads to help me grow my business? Anything will be greatly appreciated.
Facebook and Instagram growth was driven by network effect . Friends joined, more friends were invited and joined and then it became the popular place people spent time. Naturally advertising followed and the $$$ Now people are spending less time on FB and IG , and then their friends spend less tim...Read more
What’s going on with Meta? Is it me or is Instagram kind of dead now. I heard rumors that advertising dollar is now given to TikTok over Meta. Is there anything to stop further slide? Or is Meta going to be the next IBM or something? TC: 300K
It would be a crime not to launch the thread app this weekend. Make it available immediately and bombard the airwaves and tech sites with paid advertising about the app. I hope you all have scraped the twitter people graph already or atleast for previously verified accounts or accounts > 1k follow
Here is shortly about me: -14 Years in Advertising and Marketing Industry - Co-Founder / Chief Creative Officer of the Biggest Advertising Agency in Georgia (country). Directly leading 40-50 people in creative departments and also inderctly inspiring digital developlemet department of 50-60 peopl...Read more
Every single popular public Instagram account‘s comments are filled with bots, mostly advertising porn, that have hundreds of fake likes each. Does Instagram not care? The app is literally filled to the brim with abuse, social engineering, and worthless content. Likes on both posts and comments are...Read more
I just wanted to share my story as an encouragement to other product designers who are considering leaving their current company. About 3 months ago Instagram hit me with a targeted ad, advertising Blind. I immediately joined and was completely shocked at the openness of people willing to share the...Read more
Installed it a while ago to see what the big deal was. Seems like an image search app where you can create lists and such. I see the advertising point of view, companies post and promote their products on it. It's a different type of Instagram. But I don't see how it can be so big. Psy-ops app to ha...Read more
About 8/10 ads on IG is Amazon retail related for me. Also I am beginning to see a lot of Amazon ads on YouTube, Blind (even), and other channels. Is anyone experiencing increase in advertising from Amazon? It's really strange situation for me. Prior to q2 I never seen any ads from Amazon. I guess t...Read more
They had literally everything going for them including user trust, their data, their photos, their location, their voice - all they needed to do is to wrap it in a nice way to create social profiles. They also had the best engineering talent to make it happen. Sowing the right social networking see...Read more
I recently am fed with ads on Instagrams from ServiceNow. Not selling products, simply advertising their good culture, like achieving both financial health and body health at the same time. WTF, I can’t accept this. The company looks very promising and leadership looks doing very right: building cu...Read more
So was speaking to a buddy of mine the other day who has a fast growing startup. He said that a large chunk of his funding basically goes to Google and facebook for advertising for user growth. This is basically a tax you pay to them irrespective of your startup idea. It’s amazing how much of a mono...Read more
I have been working in agencies for last 7 years and looking to transition into an in-house marketing team in a senior/director role. I specialize in paid social advertising (Fb, Insta, TikTok) and have been managing large budgets ($500k/mo) for 4 years now. Most of my experience revolves around acq...Read more
I use Instagram (and the post to Facebook feature for older family members) to occasionally post pics of things (including my kids) for friends and family. I keep my stuff private and keep my friends list to actual people I know and like IRL. But I know some parents in my social circle are phobic a...Read more
Meta folks, I’m meta supporter and see how it helps small business run. I see ppl doing fb live to marketplace listings for earning on platform. For new stream of revenue, if Meta can buy Yelp and POS system like Toast, they can integrate all the aspects of food experience. Ppl can post on Instagra...Read more
Below is my portfolio of stocks in the order of most favorite to least. Although FB is up +100% in my portfolio it is one of my least favorite stock because their main revenue model is advertising through their slowly dying platforms FB and Insta. Logically if FB as a company doesn’t exist tomorrow ...Read more