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.
Just curious. Is it just Oculus ? Or is there more to it ?
And focus on ads, ig/reels, previous user acquisition goals in fb, etc
Fucked by a recent reorg. Scope is gone. Relationship is gone. Half head counts are gone. Promotion is gone. Do you know if there are any 0-1 early stage projects in FB? Would like to take risk. Don’t care WLB. Want growth badly. Please advice. Thank you
Just curious, can anyone here provide info about the Bombyx project at Meta? Been seeing some job postings about their robotics project lately, just wondering if anyone here can shed light on it from an internal perspective. Curious about the actual skills required, what the team is like, what the d...Read more
I’m currently a contractor at Facebook... I wanna make a random side project that lets users summarize their Instagram posts in a creative way. Will I get in trouble for this? I’m not an FTE, and I’m in no way using any internal knowledge for this... however I feel like it might trigger a red flag ...Read more
https://fortune.com/2022/07/01/meta-novi-crypto-payments-wallet-end-september-2022/amp
As the title says. Anybody with knowledge of this position please comment with your experience and any tips you have for interview prep. Also I need a referral if anybody is willing. Thanks!!
☝️ edit: I mean is it just DS , algo and system design questions?
Facebook stock price has been stagnant since long.
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In Cloud Engineering Many people do certifications like AWS SA, K8S CKA. Please share your insights
Full disclosure I was laid off from Meta in November. I only have gratitude for Meta. I served for many years and got a great severance. The projects I worked on helped me land another role at a smaller company in January. Smaller pay package but interesting work. Feel sorry for the folks who w...Read more
Complete lack of empathy, uninteresting and redundant projects, inexperienced and lazy leaders and cutthroat performance management culture makes this place depressing. I used to be very driven and motivated before Meta. Here, getting myself to sit in front of the laptop feels like torture. Those w...Read more
When Meta had its first set of layoffs - Zuckerberg said he takes full responsibility for it. So what exact repercussions is he facing ? He made a terrible bet with some of the projects, hired so many engineers and now he is letting everyone go like a flock of sheep. This is a prime example of when...Read more
Inspiring story https://www.businessinsider.com/software-engineer-salary-journey-meta-apple-oracle-2024-4 Copy-pasting most relevant part from the article, the TC history Oracle 2012-2014: $15,000 total compensation Grad School 2014-2016: $0 total compensation Student loan debt: $65,000 Apple 2016...Read more
Joined FB as E4 in May 2019. Ratings: 2019 H1: Too new to evaluate 2019 H2: Meets All, no promo (manager already told me) Promo after 2020 H1 unlikely. Don't have good projects in my team to show impact and direction. Also other senior ICs have the lead on projects already, and it's hard for me to ...Read more
The meta sign on is tentative. She said 100k might not be possible. But somewhere between 50k-100k Tiktok offer is for 2-2. Both team projects are great. Just unsure about tiktok's culture.
I am L4 SWE 8 yoe at Google with TC of 300k. I have a really good WLB and the reason I want to leave is because the projects were not big enough to get me to L5 and even if I get promoted now, TC increase will not be immediate. Until now, all the projects were smaller scope and seemed like our team...Read more