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.
Instagram is disabling accounts without warnings nor adequate reason. Their AI process flags comments without looking at context and disabling accounts without letting the user appeal. They disable the account, and user cannot appeal. Nor they can login to download their data because somehow their...Read more
What do you make of it? Edit: A lot of you asking for the actual video that was taken down, sharing the link here: https://youtu.be/tcfcTB9-S2s
I had a meta blind account before layoffs and every time I posted I would get response from a lot of different people, not just meta employees. Now without the meta tag, nobody responds to any questions I post and I noticed this with many other people as well. If they don’t have a big tech blind ac...Read more
Hi guys, I just got a Meta SDE offer, and I created a new Facebook account which is brand new, and link it with my meta career account. I didn’t do anything (not even created a post or used it to browse the content), However, suddenly, it’s suspended, and I already submitted an appeal. May I know if...Read more
This is bothering me. She says she doesn’t want to be on fb. It had all our wedding pics. I am mad at her. What do I do?
Any insights on this role? What are the interview questions like? I will be grateful if you could help me...I have 10+ years of sales/acc. management; but never sold software or “advertising” ;( I will start interviewing next week.
Today I received three emails from Facebook referring to me with the name "Kevin Konkrete Davis" (which is not my name), - the first email said that it was possible that somebody had entered my account and It is necessary to answer the security questions; - the next email said that my phone number ...Read more
I will be joining meta and in the onboarding procedure, I have to link my personal Facebook account for work. They mention that "it is against Facebooks community standards to have multiple personal accounts". However, I don't feel comfortable connecting my personal life to my work life via these ac...Read more
Hi friends I hate seeing my mom this sad. Her only form of entertainment has been FB and I have tried contacting FB since it happened (last night) and we haven't received anything. Does anyone know other methods to recuperate a hacked account? I've submitted forms from the FB contact page, but si...Read more
Is anybody from @meta willing to report an Instagram account for me? I know when an internal person does it… it usually gets reviewed faster because you all have your own internal special form. #meta
Worried about the data they can see! #tech Edit: My main concerns are freedom of speech and how that might impact executive management visibility. Secondly, is it like teams where anyone can easily search you up now on all meta apps and see your stories even if you’re not public profile? Does havi...Read more
Does your Facebook account change in any way once you join Facebook and link your personal account? Is there any way for your FB/IG friends to know you work at Facebook from your linked Facebook account?
Yo Facebook/Meta Guys, There is no way of me contacting a live person to get my account reactivated and none of your fancy support technology is working to get it appealed. Can someone please for the love of God help me get this stupid account back from like 2012 or at least find the real reason w...Read more
Does anyone have counter offer advice for a Facebook Account Manager? Base: 102 Equity: 35 over 4 years Sign On: N/A YOE: 4
Howdy all. My wife’s Facebook account was hacked a couple weeks ago and she seems to have fallen into some pit. There’s no way to reach anyone at Meta and now she’s locked out of a ton of other apps. Is there anyone here who might be able to help? #facebook #meta #support
Question for Facebook FTEs: I’ve accepted an offer at FB and I am reviewing the onboarding website. I see that ahead of orientation they ask you to have your personal Facebook account and AppleID/Google Pay account information handy. Does this mean Facebook will tie all my corp profiles to my pers...Read more
Is anyone at Meta able to tell me how to delete an old Facebook account that I have zero access to anymore? It has a lot of old photos and posts from my teenage years and early 20s and I have zero access to the phone number or email associated with that account. I really want it gone. I don't want t...Read more
I want to keep my facebook account deactivated all the time and activate only when I want to search something once in a while . I used to do this in last 5 years. Looks like Facebook has removed "deactivate" option for me because I can't see this option now . Any FB product manager can help please ...Read more
My father is old and he has most if his friends on Facebook. That’s the tool he uses to communicate with his friends. We can’t recover his profile and he feels sad that he doesn’t have all the conversations,photos he had with his friends. Some of his friends are no more and he had saved the photos ...Read more