Benefits are great, food is free and top notch, interesting work
Crap management, performance review process is subjective, mean girl culture
Seeing more than 90% content based on their suggestions and hardly any of what I already follow. Screw that I am out! 180 3
Canāt believe Twitter was years ahead of the competition of TikTok and IG Live and somehow fumbled both.
For those that are Non-Indian. This is an ad that popped on Instagram to consult an astro guy who will advise you on your future. Transcript: Random guy: my company is laying off folks. Is my job safe? The Astro guy (with a random guess): Right now your career is strong. You job is 100% safe Rand...Read more
This company should be broken up. how the hell was it ever allowed to acquire WhatsApp or instagram. Were the lawmakers sleeping? š“ I read that it's not really a change, but updated terms to reflect what's already happening. But this just made me question how the f did those acquisitions even make...Read more
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/01/tiktoks-potential-ban-in-us-could-be-boon-for-meta-and-snap.html Apparently it is finally happening - some CCP spokesperson commented it is not fair to do so, but someone should remind them Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, many Google products are already bann...Read more
Got an offer from Snap and is hesitated if I should move. Stock just 3x and is a bit worried if there is still upside or will be downhill. Folks in snap, how is the company recently, are you guys still confident with the growth even after covid? How is the competition with Instagram and tiktok?
Some pros: - allow billions of people to connect with friends, family, hobbies, etc. (FB/IG/WA) - kept TC bar high, didnāt collude in salary fixing, some of the best benefits in the industry - open source contribution (PyTorch/React) and pushing new technologies in Metaverse/FAIR/etc Some cons: - C...Read more
These layoffs will not end if the government does not step in. The solution can be introducing public alternatives to Google , Instagram, and Amazon. Introducing public alternatives could provide users with more choices, ensuring a diverse and competitive digital environment. By promoting healthy c...Read more
You can't meeting and press conference your way to a killer product. That's why very few products at big companies are made when it's not a startup. Google Search - Google was a startup when it made this Google Maps -acquired Microsoft Office -acquired YouTube -acquired Microsoft Windows -first...Read more
The impeachment with only one week left in presidency is because they scared Biden further divide nation and they don't want Trump to run again. Nothing else. Parler shut down for hate speech, but same speech exist in Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Current tech companies saw a potential competit...Read more
Usually they recover fine but this time feels different, they are actually bleeding users and revenues declining, that's never happened... If they headed in that direction even remotely, in the past they would just acquire new platforms to keep growing (eg. Insta, WhatsApp etc) but now the gov't won...Read more
It is no secret that Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram are losing users, although they monetize better over time with better algorithms and pushing the limits of privacy. The competitions is getting fierce - Snapchat, Signal, Telegram, Tiktok, Parler etc. are popular alternatives. Each country has th...Read more
Thereās considerable news bashing Zuck (sometimes rightfully so) and how much money is being spent on R&D of the metaverse ($20billion+/year) People are forgetting that adoption of new technology takes time and tweaking. Meta is far ahead of its competition at the moment. Horizon Workspaces, while ...Read more
Saw this on her Instagram @tingconway. I follow her because she post weekly housing data in Bay Area. Hereās excerpt from latest: You might have been experiencing the slowdown of the market. It is not because of the economy, but mainly because people have been on summer vacation. Competition might...Read more
So I turned to social media and it makes me feel a lot better. Iām honestly like so much happier. I created a private IG account, no followers, only following the content I want to watch. Only getting fed on things I chose to watch. Also, itās easier to compare oneself when people are close to you s...Read more
As the title suggests, looking for referrals for SWE roles. Got an offer form Salesforce few months ago but didn't join because didn't like the team. TC for the first year was ~210 for Seattle Cleared HC for Google L3 but got stuck due to the hiring freeze. The recruiter said to expect around 220 ...Read more
Currently negotiating between my top 3 offers in Data/ML, with 10 YOE. How would you rank them overall, based on WLB, compensation, prestige and durability, future stock outlook (based on competitive landscape), and culture? FB - E5 is 200k base, 650k RSUs, and 50k signon Slack - Staff Engineer (L...Read more
Itās commonly known that FB runs on ad-revenue, but what else is there? Compared to (F)AANG, FB is solely software based. Why donāt they expand into cloud services? What ever happened to their research projects like drone based internet in Africa or the digital currency lira? Why does FB offer a ...Read more
#Top 5 Updates of the Week: * Tiktokās new program in UK āFulfilled by Tiktokā takes a stab at Amazon & highly differentiates it from other apps. * Youtube launches ānew & returning usersā metric for Creators. * Twitter (X) CEO says the platform is close to breaking even. * Facebook Groups will ...Read more
Saw this post. Seems tech industry is not only laying off now, but we are also going to have massive influx of CS graduates going forward. A huge bubble in the entry market coming in as entry jobs shrink while CS grads explode in size. A Computer Science degree in the next half decade is going to b...Read more