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.
Hi, what it’s like to work at Facebook Workplace team? Is the business doing well and the product well received? How are the teams? perspective in what’s it like in APAC would be much appreciated, thanks!
What are your thought about Workplace by Facebook and its chances to take over Slack, Skype/Teams and the other tools in that space?
How’s the product? Company reached out to me for a role and I honestly never looked at it before. It’s been in market now for a few years but only highlight two enterprise level companies. Is adoption picking up?
Anyone notice in the last week sometime that workplace was updated to no longer show everyone’s hire date/ length of time at Meta? You used to be able to look at anyone in the company and see how long they’d been working there as well as a stat saying “worked at Meta longer than 8% of employees” et...Read more
Any info on London’s Workplace team? I heard everyone loves the product, even more so than the app itself. A lot of paying customers (businesses). Anything else?
I’ll be honest when Meta launched Workplace right after some privacy issues I thought the product was doomed. However, with the news of McDonalds striking a deal to use Workplace and with Walmart already onboard, they have the 2 biggest employers using it (McDonald’s employees are in franchises thou...Read more
Facebook/Meta still has a black people problem. And a problem with individual contributors who are not white. Black employees still face obstacles to advancement and are less likely than their white peers to be hired, developed, and promoted. And they don't want you to talk about. You talk, you go!...Read more
I know that Meta openly allows employees to date their co-workers. Meta employees - any dating stories you can share to fellow Blinders? Have you witnessed your co-workers or friends at Meta dating/ in a relationship with their co-workers? How do you meet and talk to your co-workers who are not in y...Read more
I used to like using FB 10 years ago. The way we use workplace now seems a lot like how facebook was used back then; only it feels a lot more forced than like a thing to be doing. I mean, it's like ship a feature write a post, change a gk write a post, have a question write a post. WhatsApp and Inst...Read more
I am looking for work at these two companies, but the workplace environment is super important to me. How is the work-life balance at these two companies, and what benefits are there? Wondering if anyone has experience working here, and could help me out. #job #worklifebalance #workplace #amazon...Read more
i wonder if Facebook's worplace platform allows employers to access private chat's of employees. any ideas ? #facebook
Outside of FB, of course. If you use it in your company, what do you think? Yay, nay?
I just wanted to get your opinion on impacts of choosing an enterprise focused team/org would there be compared to some of the client focusing teams? Mainly interested in these aspects: 1) differences in chances of getting a return offer 2) stress and expectations 3) career impact (pace of progress...Read more
Hows this org, importance for the org, is it a pain or gain for the company aa whole? How safe is it to join this team? Further more about RL and privacy area of the org? For E6 Tc: 350k $ #meta #google #microsoft #apple #snowflake #amazon
Does dropbox use Workplace by Facebook for collaboration?
What else you use: For Email? For Chat? For groups? Code reviews? For writing Docs/Sheets/Slides/....? . . . etc TC: 5xxk / L6 #tech #tools
Title - is WP moving from Shaftesbury somewhere else?
Saw the Microsoft Viva engage release news yesterday. Looks exactly like Meta Workplace - which is basically an internal work-focuses Facebook. Are there significant differences I'm missing?