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.
Anyone from IG can confirm or deny ? Internally known as Project 92 or Barcelona https://bgr.com/tech/if-this-is-instagrams-twitter-competitor-im-ready-to-jump-ship/
Looking for a referral at Instagram. Happy to chat! I'm a project manager/producer who's very interested in roles at Instagram. Thanks!
What types of projects do you work on? Is there interesting work going on? Are MLE teams hiring and expanding? How big are ML orgs at instagram? #instagram #machinelearning #datascience
About a year ago a person from Meta had posted that they do murals and had shared an IG page on DM. Unfortunately I never ‘followed’ him on IG because I didn’t want to dox myself. If you see this post pls DM me, there’s a fun opportunity I saw and I think your work would be perfect for that project...Read more
Recently got extended E4 MLE at meta. Recruiter said I can pick from 4 orgs: 1. instagram 2. FB app 3. monetization 4. Reality labs Anyone at meta can provide insight on working at each of the orgs? Looking to lead 0 -> 1 projects, ideally with NLP or GenAI. And ideally good WLB. Also personall
Your opinion? I think Meta will be the first to go down, Zucky spending all money on Sci-fi projects and killing Instagram. Personally I think TikTok and Amazon TC: 270K
How are Instagram teams at Faceboook? Level of engineering? Clarity of product and projects? Work culture? TC: 350k, L5
Reading all the postings about TCs and great offers on Blind, it seems that there are always someone making more money and having better lives than I do :( It’s no different than many young girls feel like they don’t measure up because they are not size 0 with double Ds from what they see on Instag...Read more
Which teams in Meta Seattle have good wlb and interesting projects for an MLE? Is it worth relocating from Seattle to the HQ in MPK for getting more team options during boot camp? Currently, the options are FRL, FAIR, Gaming, Instagram, and Ads. #facebook #meta
my startup is in immediate need of a project-based developer to help us adapt our app sign-in process away from Instagram log-in. instagram is shifting to a new api, which affects our current signup and login options and old endpoints. Send me a message asap if interested. Thanks! #gig #sidejob #st...Read more
Seeking Referral and/or context on the Fashion Programs team at Meta (Instagram) Started as a technical engineer. More recently moved into a role managing global stakeholders, large scale projects, and financial planning, analysis, reporting. YOE: 3.5 Background: Chemical Engineering #meta #in...Read more
How is the team culture on the Instagram Stories and IGTV teams? - Do you have the opportunitity to work on interesting projects? - Are there alot of politics?
I have upcoming past work interview for Product Designer role at IG(University grad). I looked at the interview guide and saw they want see experience working with cross-platform products(web, desktop) on projects that have shipped and business problems like the success metrics and outcome. My proj...Read more
Call me all sorts of names, troll me all you want and I know most of you don’t work on high-profile projects, just regular grunt CRUD stuff, but hear me out. Went to CVS today to get Tylenol. I tell my gf “I just got Tylenol”, bam! 5 minutes later, ad on Instagram about Tylenol. I asked my gf if sh...Read more
Seriously, Pinterest, Snapchat and Twitter are in similar league but looking at Pinterest Is this a school project? There’s lot of cool ML engineers working there I know but UI/UX, utility, business strategy is pure garbage. For good UI/UX , interaction look at LinkedIn Instagram Behance Snapc...Read more
I am on pre-IG (essentially being managed out of my company) and havent touched experimentation projects before. Anyone know how i can gain experience for interviews? #tech #interviews #abtest #experimentation
Does anyone have any info about the IG ops program manager role ? The type of projects this role focusses on or anything of that sort ? Thanks
Edited to provide source: I see Meta is downsizing and 'giving' impacted employees 30 days to find a new role in the company. While business conditions may warrant this, has anyone on the exec team taken responsibility for over-hiring and the proliferation of non-impactful projects? Asking for a cou...Read more
Hey group, Please help to get into tech from a non-tech background. Project management/program management #facebook #google #apple #salesforce #instagram #snowflake #microsoft #intel #netflix #ebay #paypal #linkedin #oracle #cisco #okta #rakuten #airbnb #cruise #tesla #lucidmotors ...Read more