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.
Had a virtual onsite at Meta. Majority of the people were mainland Chinese immigrants. I am an immigrant myself, but I am a bit hesitant to join a group with the same ethnicity/background. Does anyone see any cliques of ethnic minorities at Meta? Is this an issue at all?
Diversity is often cited as Increase in quality of Talent Pool, Higher innovation, Increase revenue/profit. Meta is among the most diverse companies with more than half of the employees are identified as Minorities in Tech. It even has a Chief Diversity Officer. It's a separate topic that if more t...Read more
Hey FBers, when you provide feedback for an interviewee, do you have a place on your feedback form to make notes about diversity characteristics (a quick note saying e.g. underrep. minority)? What kind of criteria are listed on the feedback form? I assume it's a form, not free text.
Controversial opinion: FB using RPM to get diversity hires. Had a cheeky search on Linkedin to look at all the RPM hires over the past few years. Every single one of them has been a woman and more likely than not, a woman of colour. I even watched a video where a current FB PM said that when she we...Read more
Spoke to someone today and this individual said that nearly half of their “diverse” candidates get hired. I challenged the person on that and told her I would show her my data about conversion rates of diverse candidates in the tech industry —conversion rates meaning what population of the diverse l...Read more
Just scrolling across Linkedin today and came across someone posting about being an incoming RPM candidate. Out of curiosity I click into their profile. Boston University No Internships except one called in an risk analysis role at a non profit Black female I was kind of shocked at how they made ...Read more
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/former-facebook-diversity-head-pleads-guilty-stealing-millions-kickback-scheme-doj-says
https://www.statista.com/statistics/311847/facebook-employee-ethnicity-us/ 7% of the US population is Asian. 13.6% is Black.
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/355223-black-lawmakers-press-sandberg-on-facebooks-lack-of-diversity
Collectively, how diverse is the product design team from a gender perspective? I have interviewed with 6 designers at this point and all have been male. Coincidence or representative of design at Meta?#
I was looking at few possible teams to join at Facebook. One of the team aligns well with my interest. The problem i see is that everyone in the team including manager seems to be coming from same country (I am making guess based on the names). Lack of diversity seems bit concerning to me, would I b...Read more
Was Diversity&Inclusion (HR) team not as Impacted or Less Impacted HR team in Meta Layoffs? Is D&I a relatively safe team to be in, at Meta, for now?
Recently interviewed at Facebook, and the virtual on-site ethnic composition was horrific - 4 Indians and 3 Chinese! After doing more research on FAANG, found out situation is quite similar! TC : 210k YOE : 9 Software Architect
Curios how that department has been impacted. Knew someone who works there at high level and who I couldn't stand (really good at networking but feels fake). Is DEI still a thing?
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/facebook-insider-company-suspended-my-account-in-h-1b-policy-doc-leak-probe/ "[P]riority of H1B applicants [from China and Korea] [over] American applicants is for the greater good of company culture." #facebook #projectveritas #apple #google
Hi! I’m a rising sophomore with previous experience as a New Technologist with Microsoft looking for referrals for underclassmen/urm specific internships at Google, Meta, Uber, Twitter, Dropbox, Deloitte, Amazon, P&G, Oracle, Blizzard, Nvidia, and Activision. I’ve gone through most of Cracking the C...Read more
I want to hear everyone's honest opinion on them, especially about its long term effect on the company.
Former Facebook diversity strategist pleads guilty to stealing more than $4 million from company https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/12/13/former-facebook-diversity-leader-pleads-guilty-to-fraud.html
How many engineers does Facebook have? I am trying to convert the latest diversity figures to actual numbers.