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.
Meta hiring again. Why would they lay off and hire people again. Isn't lack of leadership? #tech
Was preparing for my second round interview for a Product Analytics DS position with FB/Meta that was set for the next week (after asking for a week push due to a go-live being pushed at work), and was then informed at the end of last week that the Data Science positions are going through a hiring f...Read more
Rumor has it, Meta is the brink of a massive hiring spree in 2024—25,000 positions up for grabs #meta TC: 380
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
I was wondering if anyone knew why meta is hiring so hard right now if they just finished laying off a bunch of headcount. Doesnt make any sense to me this current job market lol #meta
I had a call with one recruiter yesterday who told me about the role and everything. I was sure that everything was good since the profile was a close match to mine. But later she asked me about my visa status and told me its just for green card or US citizens. I mean, wtf? TC: 285K Yoe: 4
Meta has started hiring again for IC4+ roles across US, London and Singapore for a total of 4.5k openings across the board. Edit: Please fill this form, my DMs are flooded with 300+ msgs and I’m not able to navigate https://shorturl.at/drAS8 #tech #referral #meta
Heard from a friend that Meta recruiters are canceling scheduled virtual onsite interviews for E4-6. Can someone here confirm from first hand? Meta will report quarterly earnings next week, could the hiring freeze suggest Meta is taking a defensive measure against a potentially disappointing ER? #...Read more
Apparently Meta is re-hiring some of the laid off engineers. We got one person in my Org. I came to know later that this is actually a US employment law to consider laid off folks upto 6 months for new hiring. The only different at Meta is that re-hiring don't require interview. This is quite diffe...Read more
whats going on? all of my teammates are in the loop at Meta. Friends at Meta are referring people like maniacs. Why ? Didnt you just have mass layoff? TC 460k
Last year I was laid off from one of the FAANG (not Meta), and then I joined a startup. A recruiter from Meta reached out to me to schedule an intro call. Given that most of the other big tech are either laying off more staff or still on hiring freeze, I haven't pursued anything else. What is the c...Read more
Sorry if this is old news, but I just got off the phone with my recruiter, and it seems that Meta has finalized all PM hiring for 2022. Does this track with your experience? #pm #productmanager
Just received an email from a recruiter after a confirmed scheduled onsite. Is Facebook going on a hiring freeze for the data scientist, analytics position ?
Does Meta also have the concept of Strong Hire vs No Hire vs Strong No hire etc? If the coding questions are so simple and common on Leetcode, how can they really say someone is a strong Hire?
Just got contacted by my recruiter that Facebook is freezing all mid level (E4) hiring across US and cancelled my onsite interview. Anyone else got the same news?
What happened to Meta year of efficiency? My mates and I got Meta recruiters email this week after 2 year hiatus. Are these fake openings?
Not sure what's happening at Meta London. Recruiter reached out, I went through the Screening round. Did pretty well. But got ghosted. Haven't heard back from the recruiter in 2-3 days. I tried reaching out on LinkedIn, but they just see the message and ignore. Meta had been hiring aggressively ag...Read more
Just giving back to the community. YOE: this is tricky to answer. I am not a generalist and I have a unique hardware background and skill set. In the industry my YOE is 10+, as engineer/adjacent I have 4. Hired at E5 (Edit: interviewed for E5) Screen: Both tagged. Medium. Needed hints with one qu...Read more
What's cooking metamates? Or this is just some exercise to train recruiters? Tc: 150k Yoe: 1 #meta #hiring