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.
Sunday! Everyone posting brunch videos on Instagram, knocking back those waffles and fried chicken, get some ice cream to go, put some baileys in your coffee? Is this you? Or, did you prepare for the week by training, sweating, lifting. Hitting the gym, the mat, spin class, CrossFit, etc?
Working out indoor/balcony has become boring and not keeping it consistent. Any of you in South Bay going to outdoor trainings (saw ads on fb/insta for outdoor rowing and boxing) or boot camps and got recommendations? Or if you have a personal trainer that offers outdoor training, please share. Thin...Read more
~ colson whitehead What do you think? To the people voting No, do you believe that the characters that we display are our innate true ones? Don't you think its a training of the society? We don't actually feel guilt or empathy in some cases, we were taught to do so. Ig we were taught to be ruthl...Read more
For example, operating a vehicle in the US requires people to have a permit. Will something similar happen to tech in the future? Right now, kids don’t know how to use tech correctly and end up misusing it heavily when underage (visiting IG/TikTok/YouTube). Regulation should involve proper trainin...Read more
I went ahead and signed up expensive personal training online based on an Instagram ad. They were going to provide personalized meal plans and workouts etc. Turns out they give an online workout just like EXERPRISE app - nothing more. For meal plan, they said since I eat ethnic foods they don’t know...Read more
While I enjoy the occasional drink, I want to know why so many people drink on a daily basis. And I'm not talking about addicts or alcoholics, but people who enjoy a glass or two of wine or a couple whiskeys everyday? Heck it's gotten to a point where it's normalized on Instagram for content to sho...Read more
Yet another rip off from suckerberg. 1) Twitter was a huge dataset available for LLM training upon which openai also used for training it's models. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-openai-twitter-data-pay-dispute-2023-4 2) Zuckerberg's metaverse was a flop. Although he might have gotten ...Read more
I see these instagram posts where they tell you to “Stop listening to music while driving because you can do a training course instead”. Sure you need pockets of focus periods throughout your life intermittently but making money the central focus of your entire life is just a result of the toxicity ...Read more
Hey! New here. I am currently looking to move my career into the Tech space in non-tech roles. While I have knowledge in technology I am looking into Program Management roles (more people focused). I have 8+ years in the nonprofit space and currently working at an engineering company. Background in ...Read more
Im going to FB onsite in two weeks to join their Applied Machine Learning group. Recruiter told me there will be a “system-design” interview, with questions like how would you design instagram, unrelated to ML. I am all about answering questions on how to scale DNN training, learning algorithms, o...Read more
In 2019, LinkedIn filed suit against HiQ for scraping LinkedIn data to build their sales navigator tool in the Ninth Circuit. This suit ultimately yielded the decision that scraping publicly available information is legal, which withstood several appeals until late 2022, where LinkedIn was able to s...Read more
Hey all, past couple months I’ve been building out an MVP for a health tech app. I have a beef with how bad the Canadian health care system is and I really want to make things better for individuals. About me - I’ve spent the last 7 years in product, building and launching software for payments, i...Read more
Title. And that goes for all the WITCH companies (Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, HCL). I write this post in hopes that no one else makes the same mistake that I did. I know people understand that WITCH=bad, but I wanted to write in more concrete detail exactly why these companies are so terrible. A...Read more
https://www.wsj.com/articles/these-tech-workers-say-they-were-hired-to-do-nothing-762ff158 For those who are paywalled: Until last year, Madelyn Machado, 33 years old, worked for Meta. Except she says she didn’t really work at all. Ms. Machado, who held a position as a recruiter, says that after j...Read more