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.
After working at Meta for many years and seeing the current situation of Meta layoff employees, I feel Meta has screwed up many tech roles with rest of the Industry. The PSC and Promotion culture has deviated the role and competency of people so much from the rest of the tech industry that almost ha...Read more
PSC is over at Meta and I want to relax a bit before things start running again next week. So doing an AMA and referral thread. Here's a little bit about me: 2014 summer: intern in Feed ML 2015 summer: intern in marketplace ML 2016: Joined Marketplace ML in March as E3 2017: Landed a big product...Read more
Sundar said to Mark that he was impressed by the AI work being done by Meta. Mark had no clue what his team were doing. After that compliment from sundar he went all in on AI and stock went up 5x. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-01-11/mark-zuckerberg-pivots-to-ai-from-metaverse-to-furt...Read more
Zuck is true sucker, what a slap on laidoff employees. They have $40B for stock buyback but not to support employees. Seems like they need to pump the stock so that wall street and they can dump on retail.
https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/5/18/23729176/meta-silicon-valley-massive-layoffs-mark-zuckerberg Happening this coming week. Hopefully that is the end of the layoffs and herald better times ahead. For those impacted, pls know that the Blind community is here for you. The world doesn't end when...Read more
Did you learn today about layoffs via WSJ or via internal communication?
Meta stocks has almost tripled in the past few months. If they were given stocks based on the undervalued valuation, then employees are all swimming in cash right now.
hi, i want to send my resume for a position at Facebook but i need to use an acquaintance whom i am not really comfortable asking for a favor. I was wondering what is the Employee referral processes look like at Facebook from the employee side? what exactly does he need to do so i would know if i c...Read more
Max Wang, a Boston-based software engineer who was leaving Facebook after more than seven years, shared a video on the company’s internal discussion board that was meant to serve as a warning. “I think Facebook is hurting people at scale,” he wrote in a note accompanying the video. “If you think so ...Read more
I guess all that hiring bias and prioritizing H1b over American engineers isn’t working out. https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-facebook-messenger-hit-with-layoffs-2024-3
Full transparency: I used to work at Meta. Two of my friends who were not notified on Wednesday reached out to their HRBPs, who today said there was an error and they actually were impacted. Another stated HR is doing an audit that could take weeks, so people who received “safe” letters may end up ...Read more
I joined meta today and found many employees joining back who were laid off in Nov. So, was laid off only for optics to calm investors #layoff #meta
Just saw an Internal report doc shared by a friend (I can’t reveal the source but I can confirm this is true) that revealed that 50% of Meta employees were performing below average! This is when compared to all Meta employees. I knew Meta had some dead weight but can you believe that half are belo...Read more
I’m already working at my max capacity, getting good PSC ratings. But I’m being asked to deliver 300% of my bandwidth next half. No flexibility bc we need to show “increased intensity”. Anybody in a similar situation at Meta? #layoffwithoutlayoff
TLDR; Zuck won the tournament https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cr9AJ24ti0Z/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Are laid off meta employees blacklisted? Got caught in the big layoff in November 2022. I’ve tried re-applying to meta countless times and cannot get an interview. I was wondering if any of the higher up meta employees here knew the answer to this question. If we are blacklisted, how long until I c...Read more
Show us your TC. Are you guys able to sell? Because I’d sell the fuck out of this rally.
Is Facebook stressing its employees so much that one of them committed suicide? https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2019/09/19/facebook-employee-dies-at-menlo-park-headquarters/
How much is it? How about if you have a family? What about entry level role?
Don’t go about bidding up all the available real estate in the market with your astronomical RSUs and driving up prices. Congrats on the solid quarter if you survived the layoff TC 300k 🥜