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.
Been pondering about this for a while. Looks like it doesn’t show posts to all my followers anymore. Most don’t even know I posted. And then when some people visit my profile, they suddenly start liking all recent posts. Did something change with the way Instagram shows posts in feed? How to be on ...Read more
Instagram Reels shows videos based on the pages I am following. Way too customized. TikTok shows random videos to me which makes it exciting and it's like getting candy. There is no real algorithm. Just show random stuff to people. That is the secret sauce. So basically for Reels need to start sh...Read more
To that one developer, probably Indian, who is laughing hard so far; please make @instagram stop from showing me random Indian couples dancing on streets. I honestly don’t care. :( Sincerely, Fuckd up user. Oh wait, TC: was 325 but crashed into 285k.
I used to see who just watched my story by the latest person on top, same as Story on Messenger. Now, it's mixed up. I read reddig says they changed algorithm for people I engaged the most or vice versa now on top instead. Its annoying Any thoughts? Tc: 🤪 😵 #instagram
tc:155k What makes Instagram decide to rank your story viewers is real interesting , I thought it was just mutual engagement but then I would get accounts I rarely engage with at the top and ones I do stalk at the bottom. What is it? #tech
I have a side hustle on IG and was wondering if anyone with intimate knowledge of how the IG algorithm works could share some pointers on how I can organically increase engagement- comments, likes, saves, shares, etc. TIA! #sidejob #gig #sidehustle #instagram #algorithm
You see some people just throwing the word around unnecessarily. Probably makes them feel like they know what’s up 😂🤣😂🤣 e.g paraphrasing : “something is off with the algorithm cos why am I seeing so so post on my explore page”
Just watched an Influencer speaking about Instagram algorithm. He said "A tough job is understanding the Instagram algorithm which changes every week". Is it true? #engineering #software #swe
Anybody else? I just want some memes and pets pics
I have love/hate opinion on Musk. Sometimes he is a jerk. Ignoring my opinion, what Twitter did is much appreciable. Open sourcing code base will allow neutral third party acid test. This put so much burden on Google, Meta, etc. Blind has a tunnel vision on Musk. He is doing what other Tech CEOs u...Read more
Pretty much the question
Why send me so many superficial white people on my instagram feed???!! I have zero interest. Can you please use better recommendation algorithm? Do you consider any diversity in your content choice?
I don’t understand why competitors haven’t been able to recreate / copy the TikTok algorithm? Meta pays its engineers and product folks so much money yet they’re not able to copy / recreate an algorithm most likely written by people making much less money than them. Instagram Reels is ass and no wh...Read more
https://www.engadget.com/meta-vows-to-take-action-after-report-found-instagrams-algorithm-promoted-pedophilia-content-133343896.html #engineering #software #meta
All I see is half-naked girls on my explore feed, even though I only follow music-related profiles, such as music producers. Even when marking those posts as "Not interested", I am still getting similar posts recommended. What went wrong? #tech #instagram #ig #meta #algorithm #algo
I’m a 24M and recently instagram has just become extremely relatable. I guess they updated the algorithm or something? I always try to influence the algorithm with consciously liking/reporting specific content type. I avoid cringe influencers and like nature and outdoorsy content. Recently I went t...Read more
Does instagram algorithm penalize profiles who do growth hacking techniques - such as follow unfollow, engagement group, etc.
IG's just a platform. It didn't create a toxic culture of self-comparison to peers. The algorithm is not optimized to perpetuate the problem either, it's merely showing what people want to see. People will always find a medium to engage in this ancient behavior, with or without IG. In the age of...Read more
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2023/06/08/instagram-algorithms-promote-accounts-that-share-child-sex-abuse-content-researchers-find.html
Does anybody feel like instagram is getting less and less user friendly to use? Why in the world are you showing me stories that i've already seen thousand times 🥲 I've updated my instagram and it's still not working. Besides that ads I am getting are not accurate too what happened to the instagram...Read more