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.
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Hello there, Did anyone attend Facebook interview recently for security engineer position ? What are the typical questions we need to prepare? Security is kind of ocean. It becoming hard to cover the stuff and on top of it there is coding round. Any tips for coding round? Apart from Leetcode and ...Read more
Does anyone know about job security at Meta? I just happened to have many connections on Linkedin who worked for Meta and left after just one year. Most were even before last year layoffs. #meta #jobsecurity
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Anyone have insight into the security team at Facebook? Got a couple of inquiries from recruiters and since I know no one there, it’s hard to truly commit going into the unknown. Teams that have reached out - infrastructure security and privacy team. #cybersecurity #security #interview
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Waiting for an offer from Meta for an E5 software role . Following the aftermath of layoffs should I be worried about changing FAANG roles rn? Job is secure currently and want to gauge trade offs of higher TC but possible low job security? Current TC 300K #meta #faang
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Incredibly fortunate to have gotten an offer at both of these places. FB return intern offer: 236K TC (124k base, 160k stock, 50k sign on, >;=10% perf bonus, 10k relo ) - NYC Citadel Securities offer: 375K TC (175k base, 100 guaranteed perf bonus, 100k signing bonus) - NYC/Chicago FB WLB is pret