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.
Hello, I will be joining Facebook in Data Science role in few weeks and wondering what to expect in the training or onboarding week? Where to find the schedule for it? TC: 140K #meta #newjob #tech #datascience #dataanalytics #faang
Does anyone know if Meta/Facebook offers Product Manager training for new hires?
I will have 2 behavioral rounds, one of them is for training new FB interviewers. Could the training round affect the hiring decision ? I don't have that many stories to tell. #facebook #interview #behavioralinterview
Leaving Oracle for Facebook soon. Two things I would really really miss are: - safari books subscription - Lynda.com subscription There are a few others like IEEE and HBR, but the above two are the ones I use most. Does Facebook have such subscriptions or equivalent for its employees?
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Currently an L5 at Waymo in non tech Program Management (Training Manager, Senior Program Manager). Also I am a Manager in my current role. Should the comparative level at Meta be E5 or E6 or an M level role. Would love some insights.
I'm joining as a new grad earlier next year (Jan-Feb 2023). I explicitly asked my recruiter 1) whether the new manager training has been completed and 2) whether PERM-related recruitment is being done. She said YES to both, although she did say that no new PERM cases have been filed yet. Any intern...Read more
I was initially told of 2 coding interviews+2 design+career progress with coding. But I got 3 coding interviews. So was one of them a dud round?
I heard if there are two persons and if one of them is shadowing, then it is particularly a training interview. Not sure if it's correct. #facebook #softwareengineer
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MTIA 2 LLAMA 3 Announced within few weeks Meta is coming for NVDA and OpenAI. https://ai.meta.com/blog/next-generation-meta-training-inference-accelerator-AI-MTIA/ https://llama.meta.com/llama3/
Huge increase in trolls from aforementioned companies with meta layoff news! Seems we need more mandatory empathy training courses Agree?
I got hired at Meta recently at E5 with TC of 500k. However I am interested in becoming a big millionaire by joining openAI. How can I leverage my Meta role to join openAI. Do I need any AI specific training to join openAI.
Hey does anybody know if Meta offers any personal training benefits or services in regards to fitness and the gym in NYC? TC: 535k
I currently have a Meta Onsite with 2 Coding, 1 Behavioral and 2 Sys Design. One of the Sys Design has two interviewers listed. I heard this round is a training round. Does anyone know if this round is reported to the Hiring Committee or if it is evaluated for offer decision? Thanks! #meta #metaon...Read more
I want to know what's happening in the current 1 week meta bootcamp in MPK. Is it technical training or something else?
Came across this dumb b talking about training people to get into meta when all they did was intern in meta for 3 months and couldn’t even convert to full time
I work at a HFT (not Cit) and have interviewed a bunch of Meta employees. They have impressive claims on their resume (boosted engagement by X%, saved Y% in capacity, removed Z% of bad content, etc). However, when you actually ask them questions about their work they know nothing. I had one intervi...Read more