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.
After todays media outage of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp at the same time, do you think all the services share media servers? Any insiders?
Hi folks, I am facing issues with IG, FB app and WhatsApp! Anyone else? Is their server down?
Anyone else seeing instagram down? Everything’s broken. Can anyone from FB comment? Edit: Apparently FB internal workplace apps are all down right now too. Do they really use the same servers between internal usage and public facing traffic?! TC: $290k
We know that Instagram runs on Django as its main server. How easy or hard is it to run and maintain this architecture ? context : I hear a lot of Java or C++ for most architectures. And I get it - languages like C++ can be used to yield the best performance possible for a given hardware. But In th...Read more
LMAO. Already deleted my account long back. I hope my data is deleted from their servers. #instagram #snapchat #tiktok #facebook #twitter #ads
What do people thing of LinkedIn turning to FB/Insta? It annoys me now to open LinkedIn and scroll through since people are all posting personal updates. It no more servers the purpose of professional network. Thoughts ?
Are any of you Google employees paying attention to what is going on in YouTube and on Instagram? You have a woman with 500k+ followers threatning to shoot reporters and process servers.. she made TMZ yesterday... I'm trying to figure out how you guys have not stepped in and shut her accounts and ch...Read more
Hey folks, I have a doubt regarding Messenger/chat systems in general. Look at the attached screenshot for reference to the System design I'm referring to. Every message that's sent from a User/Client flows through a chat server into a Message Sync queue awaiting delivery to another User and also ge...Read more
EU regulators dEsTrOyEd If you want social media then either pay with your data or pay with $. We won’t run our servers for free. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/03/meta-wants-to-charge-europeans-to-access-instagram-facebook-report-.html EDIT: what people are missing is that we don’t actually want p...Read more
I'm a mobile (iOS/Android) dev, and would like to getting my hands on how things are implemented e2e. (I'm so out-of-touch with non-mobile fields - so you can think of me as a total beginner here). Thinking of implementing a mini-instagram as a capstone project but doesn't know where to start on th...Read more
My friend has been stalked by this guy for many years now. He is a senior software engineer at Apple. She blocked him on all the platforms like LinkedIn, Discord, Instagram, etc. She made new accounts with a different name and different email and yet he still managed to find her. She asked me if th...Read more
Seen some dated posts here on Blind that mention companies like Instagram use Django as their primary framework. Just curious to know if folks know of any other companies that use some Python framework such as Flask or Django? Not for analytics or data science either, want to learn about cases of Py...Read more
I see a lot of talented people looking for tech jobs when the all-star team is already on Blind. First the truth- TikTok will be banned in the U.S. in the next few months. EU will follow. Twitter is imploding and global citizens need another platform to allow for democratized freedom of speech and...Read more
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-make-social-media-much-more-toxic-eric-schmidt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&utm_campaign=share_via AI is about to make the social media and the internet so much more toxic 1. There are people making money by answering Quora questions by copying and p...Read more
So I was watching the scaling instagram video on youtube and also working through the system design questions. I am not able to confirm how does video metadata work for global audience. Scenario: Video uploaded in US Video viewed in Entire world. Now for better availability and low latency of com...Read more
I need advice. My girl friend brought me to a fancy French restaurant. IPAID for everthing. I was so excited. I took pics of the food and sent them to my mom. I was on my phone probably a total of 13 minutes the entire 1.5 hours we were there. I wasn't scrolling through Instagram or anything. I was...Read more
So my partner is a teacher and we were talking today about having a 2nd house somewhere near the beach. It'd be nice to have a house outside of the city, next to the ocean to relax at weekends. We calculated that we would need about $8M. We're thinking about opening an online store that sells the p...Read more
It is not an exhaustive list and might not work for everyone. Also it is not a one size fits all thing but I hope it helps you to draft a plan and figure out how to tackle the sys design. Resources: 1. https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer 2. https://github.com/binhnguyennus/awesome-s...Read more
This is what growth at all costs looks like. Deel is a sh1tsh0w for accepting these clients when their whole value prop is compliance. As a former employee, I witnessed growth being prioritized over every rational and legal reason. Leadership are aggresive bullies and sooner than later it will implo...Read more