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.
Comp. But no refresher if stock goes up. Nice sf office.
WLB. Very Top down chain of command. Keeps getting worse. Comply or get out. Losing its strong engineering and leadership
Used to work at Uber till the layoffs happened, just joined Facebook. Facebook is still hiring. DM if you'd like a referral or are interested to know what it's like here. #layoff #referral
What's going on? Is this the end? Tc: 240k
Let’s assume Meta has their second round of layoffs next week or early March. Which companies are going to follow? #layoff #severance #meta #google #amazon #microsoft #pinterest #salesforce #atlassian #uber #snap #stripe #palantir #airbnb #lyft #roblox #netflix #datadog
How’s the PERM situation at Uber? Are labor market tests succeeding? What’s the timeline for PWD looking like? What’s the general consensus regarding layoffs and job security at Uber for software engineers? Looking for companies to move to since Labor market tests are failing at Meta and I have ar...Read more
I had 2 offers, one from Disney streaming at Los Angeles and the other one from Meta but still in team match phase. I received 330k from Disney including sign-on and the location is Los Angeles. The offer from Meta is E4 and still in the team match phase. According to the recruiter from Meta, it l...Read more
The days of competing offer bidding wars and resetting the TC bar are over. It was a good 1.5 year run. Meta - cutting costs, hiring freeze Amazon - CFO said the company is overstaffed in Q1 earnings call Netflix - cutting costs, slowing down hiring Uber - cutting costs, hiring freeze Twitter - E...Read more
With Lyft, Stripe, Uber, Twitter and Meta all sufferring major casualties, which large cap tech firm is the next to get hit with mass layoffs?
It looks like USCIS just announced all H1B results. Anyone from Qualcomm or fragomen who already got an update .... My fragomen portal shows nothing yet but I read on fb groups some people started getting emails from fragomen. https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/alerts/fy-2024-h-1b-cap-season-updates T...Read more
godamn, is there an organized effort to poach Uber engineers? Seems like 2/3 Uber engineers that left or got laid off recently ended up at Facebook. #uber #facebook #faang #layoffs #softwareengineer
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I still think yes. People seem to have forgotten the last uber layoff quickly along with Snap and Twitter in the past as well. #uber #lyft #google #facebook #microsoft #airbnb
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Hello everyone, I was impacted by layoff a month ago but it seems to be a tough market now and I seem to need to lean on the Blind community for some help. Can anyone help with a referral to any of the companies? LC:200+ YOE: 6 years Please drop a comment so I can DM you my info. Thanks! #swe #l...Read more
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