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.
What's going on? It's down over 20% from ATH and still in a downtrend. Is Meta in real trouble ? #facebook #meta
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Noticed this position open on the Facebook site. Thinking of applying. Any insights into team or leader?
Considering applying for eng role in FB Calibra. Anyone familiar with the department or can chime in on how they’re doing? WLB, pressure, etc? Up for L4 promo @Goog and looking to match at FB (E4?) TC 160k
A friend of mine sent me this. It's a blatant scam, but even after reporting it multiple times, Meta leaves it up. Facebook is really trash now. There's tons of this stuff on the platform and they don't even try to clean it up. https://www.facebook.com/groups/972188666913802/ #meta
I am considering commerce platform in Facebook as an E6 engineer. This is seller/merchant side of commerce platform. How is the work? Impact? Growth? How is the work life balance? I have good experience in commerce domain. Hope these will help. TC: 420 New TC: not yet known #tech
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What should I know about this team before accepting a PM offer? WLB, politics, influence, impact, leadership, growth opportunities, etc... Everyone I've spoken with seems great, but I don't know what I don't know.
Should FB compete with AWS, GCP, OCI, Azure, and the like?
Considering Apple ios privacy changes that hurt small businesses by restricting ad efficiency and incurring 10 billion dollars of losses for them, one would ask himself isn't this Meta's most important ER since the company ipoed? I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. #meta #fb #aapl #apple
Hey FB peeps, curious if anyone had some thoughts about the Developer Platform team. Interested to hear comments on work visibility within wider org (I believe it's Ads) and related career/growth opps. Good place to be with regards to these dimensions? Many thanks!
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