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.
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
Seems like FB is getting into everything. How do you think FB streaming will work out? https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/18/facebook-introduces-portal-tv-streaming-device.html
I am absolutely dreaded as to what to prepare for the Python streaming question. I have never worked on streaming data. Can someone please point me to some resources that I can use to prepare for this question? I have my onsite interview coming up next week. This for the university grad DE position...Read more
Can anyone give me an opinion about the following team in Meta London. Feature engineering is the process of using domain knowledge to extract useful information in the form of features that can be consumed by machine learning (ML) algorithms. Feature engineering platform is a critical part of a re...Read more
With the advent of internet, people have become seeker rather than consumer of garbage thrown by media. Is main stream media scared of facebook because their influence is waning in shaping the public opinion. I think to the certain extent fake news is just an excuse? It is true to the certain exte...Read more
By the end of 2019, name in the comments a tech company/media company that WON'T have a streaming service? This is getting beyond ridiculous. https://www.fiercevideo.com/tech/facebook-pursues-disney-netflix-support-for-tv-video-chat-device-report
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-vps-leave-ahead-of-thousands-more-layoffs-2023-5 Which VPs are leaving? #meta
I am having a DE onsite interview scheduled for Facebook, can anyone please help me understand how should I prepare for the Streaming/Real-time data processing ETL round. It would be really helpful if anyone can share sample questions either from leetcode or past experience similar to what is expect...Read more
Is it HLS under http or RTMPs under tcp? Preparing for my system design round and got confused from recent posts from their blog. They provided the Vin disel example where everything went to hell and suggested a way on edge server to handle that load, but on the other hand mentioned they would be ...Read more
Having it next week. Decided to split it into 2 consecutive days. Sunday - 2 coding rounds + behavioral Monday - system design Following, recruiter’s advice, where an in domain problem related to streaming would be presented, I decided to put all my eggs on a real time streaming question(implemen...Read more
As title suggests why is meta not pulling in other streams. Is it failing that bad ? Every other company has more than 2 major streams. what’s happening meta ? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-big-tech-makes-their-billions-2022/ #meta #facebook #instagram #whatsapp #money #revenuewell
I want to know whether it will be possible to apply for Canada work visa for E4 at Meta under the Global Talent Stream program, since it has a much lower timeline. I am an Indian. TC : 50,000 USD YOE : 4 years #tech #canada #immigration #meta #facebook
This can be a game-changing move if it is successful. The possibilities are limitless. As a sports fan, I hope that this is successful. Source - > https://www.ufc.com/news/ufc-fight-pass-deliver-live-and-demand-mma-events-vr-meta-horizon-worlds-app Will this revolutionalize the viewing experience
Almost all revenue comes from 1-2 tricks. Nothing more. Prove me wrong Meta- Facebook, ads Apple- iPhone Amazon- Amazon.com, AWS Netflix- streaming Google- search, ads
The word is out. Google’s reputation takes a nosedive with Main Stream Media. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/20/tech/google-layoffs-employee-culture/index.html TC 450k Yoe 15 #google #amazon #meta #microsoft
A tech company in todays world implies a few things. Namely that you work with technology (synonymous with anything touching computers these days, which I think is a fallacy, but I digress). But also that you are high growth and “innovating”. When we look at Netflix, it should be obvious that all th...Read more
I got offer from Disney streaming /Hulu division and team looks very good and want to know the work culture at Disney streaming. Growth Culture WLB Stability Current TC peanuts Role srSde Tc 185k base 50k stock/year 11k bonus Location CA #cisco #sap #hulu #disney #microsoft #google #disneystre...Read more
I have a backend streaming server that streams video blobs from Google Cloud Storage. This streaming server sends back response header that returns content-range, accept-ranges, content-length, content-type. The problem is that the frontend that loads this blob correctly streams the video but the l...Read more
My friend had his Data Engineering onsite today. All parts of his behavioral interview, data modeling and batch ETL went well. The interviewer provided a couple of hints during the batch ETL interview though. During his streaming ETL interview, he feels like the data visualization/product sense/sql ...Read more