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.
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
What’s facebooks competitive advantage or largest revenue streams I can’t see them lasting too much longer next 5-10 years. Still just the facebook platform and WhatsApp, instagram? Do they have other moonshots I don’t know about or other large revenue streams ?
in a recent podcast, ye said "I can say antisemitic things and Adidas cant drop me. Now what?" here's what... Adidas cut ties Balenciaga cut ties Vogue / Anna Wintour cut ties Dropped by talent agency, CAA Dropped by lawyer, Camille Vasquez Streams, sales & airplay plummeted Banned from Instagram, ...Read more
Hello! I have a mobile system design interview coming up and am trying to get a list of questions asked at other companies. Please contribute to this list with your experience :) 1. ride sharing services between three buildings of a campus 2. photo streaming app 3. Instagram stories 4. Design Slack...Read more
What do those on the inside feel about the constant stream of copycat features and products being introduced in FB and IG? It's definitely a theme. Putting aside that it's a great strategy to crush smaller competitors.
Protip: no matter how much tech companies put rainbow backgrounds behind their logos they will sell the gay community down the river the second it threatens their revenue stream. https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/02/13/instagram-grants-indonesias-request-shuts-down-account-featuring-gay-musl...Read more
Doesn’t it anger you about the sad life we live in. All the white collar folks are off to work or manage business. The influencers and gamers be chilling 24/7 streaming and making “content” on YouTube/Twitch/TikTok/Instagram and get paid exorbitant cash for the “views”. Given this precedent, there’...Read more
I talked to a few Director level folks at META and everyone is unanimously agreeing on rapid fall of META. Zuck seems obsessed with his crapshit Metaverse story where revenue channels are almost thin. The main FB app has slowed down significantly and the only growth engine they see is Insta. Zuck...Read more
Hi Insta folks, I have accepted offer from Instacart and have been given below choices for the team 1. Orders / Payments / Invoice (under same org) - Instacart flagship product 2. Identity and fraud (collecting data streams and running ML models for fraud detection) - Shopper success Please rate...Read more
Can anybody talk about how it is working at Snap? Blind has a negative sentiment on how they hired a lot of Amazonions and that ruined the culture. Is it just because they're bringing in Amazon practices or they're incompetent? Recruiter reached out to interview and they're working on something whic...Read more
I am building a comprehensive list of system design interview topics. If you don’t know where to start, start with these: SYSTEM DESIGN COMPREHENSIVE TOPICS: 1. Near realtime location based system (Uber, DoorDash, Dating apps) 2. Near realtime Newsfeed system (FB, Insta) 3. File storage system (Go...Read more
Meta folks, I’m meta supporter and see how it helps small business run. I see ppl doing fb live to marketplace listings for earning on platform. For new stream of revenue, if Meta can buy Yelp and POS system like Toast, they can integrate all the aspects of food experience. Ppl can post on Instagra...Read more
I use TikTok and I spend about the same amount of time on social media (IG, Reddit, messenger, Twitter, Blind) as before and less time on streaming (YouTube, Netflix, etc). Explain to me how TikTok is going to take out social media companies? It’s not a social network. I don’t communicate with peop...Read more
Hello, I am writing to here as my last resort to get a help from someone from Instagram / Meta. -------------- I have live-streamed my wedding in Instagram (also known as IGTV previously). Some time ago, Meta decided to remove IGTV completely and move them to Videos instead. So, as a result; live ...Read more
What is Facebook’s gameplan for the future? Out of all FAANG companies, I feel it is least poised to stay relevant in the future. Amazon is growing, Apple has it’s Apple sheep and people who need/want hardware changes, Google is still no. 1 search engine and nobody cares about Netflix (lol) but what...Read more
Seriously, every reasonable product owner will tell them that. They can make these apps as Tiktokish as they want but it will never the same. Is much better to create an entirely new competitive product than to leverage an existing user base and pivot. Right now, people will always prefer to go to T...Read more
#product #productmanager #pm I have a Product sense/execution interview scheduled for tomorrow with Meta. I am fairly comfortable with the process of creating/executing a value stream (from my work experience) for a SaaS product but I am not an instagram user, I am facebook stalker-user and I hav...Read more
1. Expectation is that you actually know how to build /deploy mobile apps than just talk. Be shameless to borrow code from several available repos to build quick prototype rather than try for perfection or stuck on nuances. 2. No comp, Sweat equity. We pick any standard framework to share equity an...Read more
I think I spent the last 6-7 hours on my phone … scrolling through IG, YouTube, TikTok, web streaming (not OF but something similar), and will be all depressed at work tomorrow and not feel fulfilled. I tried to push myself to work out but it’s easy to give up on it. I haven’t been able to do anythi...Read more
This behavior of carrying on & causing gridlock & problems is kinda intended to be provocative & inflammatory, change the conversation Don’t get bent out of shape with the cynical people egging it on, true believers It is tough & unprecedented to keep this many people inside at once. The good new...Read more