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.
Hey folks, I joined Meta a few months ago. This place is amazing, and an amazing job (and I’m grateful!), but personally my time in Big Tech is/has always been strategic. I’m going to start company at some point in the near future (within a domain that Meta is good at; but obviously not directly com...Read more
I am currently E6 engineer at Facebook. My TC is nearly 500K. A friend of me and I had a startup idea and were able to close 3M seed funding. Do you think I should continue at FB as an E6 or take the risky path with the startup? #engineering #swe
https://www.benzinga.com/amp/content/29162841
Nina Patel has a BA and MA in dancing and is the co-founder of a "safe metaverse" startup that specializes in "the metaverse, AI, NFTs, crypto, blockchain, robotics, healthcare, and edtech." (https://www.linkedin.com/company/getkabuni/about/). Here's her post on the medium page of her startup, Kabu...Read more
Base Pay for DoorDash is $2.5, Instacart is $7, mostly indifferent to size, distance, time. The entire driver economics is primarily being run thanks to tip. Platforms do add tons of value, but with fees, markup, obfuscation that acts well for growth but not transparency. In short they’re like mega...Read more
Have been in tech as an engineer/co-founder since 1992. from the dot com era, thru the financial crisis and now whatever this is. Have been pipped, laid off, fired and kicked out as a co-founder. #layoffs #tech #google #adobe #meta #apple AMA 2/22/23 1800 Eastern (US): Edit 1: Blind is rate limiti...Read more
Just saw she joined a startup as co founder How long can she have similar tc as VP of facebook? Was she laid off recently?
https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2022/8/2/a-message-from-our-ceo-and-co-founder-vlad-tenev #robinhood #tech #layoff #faang #amazon #google #meta #fintech
It’s been launched since my college days and has 500K+ downloads and made over 5k/mo recently. We are two co-founders and think we can achieve 10-100X growth by end of this year (our experience is from google, apple, HFT, meta). Looking for someone with full-stack knowledge. DM me. #startup #equity...Read more
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/23/why-apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-deactivated-his-facebook-account.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/23/why-apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-deactivated-his-facebook-account.html
So the Co-founder was fired for being Pro-Trump. Is political alignment a deal breaker to find employment in the valley? Is this a right precedent? Does one need to conform to political ideologies of the Big brother? https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/facebook-fired-palmer-luckey-oculus-vr-co-founder...Read more
“whopping 44% of Facebook users between 18-29 say they've deleted the app from their phone in the last year” https://twitter.com/cnbc/status/1054192363663450112?s=21 also, oculus is dead https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/22/oculus-co-founder-is-leaving-facebook-after-cancellation-of-rift-2-headset/
I am getting some feeling that something is wrong at Facebook? We have had three outages just this year alone. Many co-founders of Instagram, WhatsApp, Chief Product Officer left. Even Reed Hastings left Facebook Board. Facebook Recruiter avoiding any clear joining date of a friend. Has avoided ...Read more
Have a product that is well into the MVP stage with design and product fit done (went viral). Really good mission with a very non-bs roadmap to success. We have an awesome co-founder leading eng but he has a full time job which has started needing excessive bandwidth. We are looking for a technical...Read more
Hi there, Anyone interested in both traditional culture/history/fashion and Web3? want to build something together? About me: mixture background of software engineer + finance + literature. Looking for a technical co-founder =) Comments on where to meet/e-meet co-founders are also appreciated. I...Read more
Hi all! Wondering if anyone could provide a referral within these companies. Currently a software engineer/co-founder for a startup in midwest looking for new opportunities. Greatly appreciated! YOE: 3 #google #meta #coinbase #uber
I am looking to work on an idea along with my job. If anyone if looking for a cofounder - let’s do it. #Apple #google #meta
A brand like Facebook or any other top company/university on your resume makes it easier to get jobs or attract high quality investors/cofounders in the future. That’s what I think at least. I’m at Facebook and I don’t see myself staying long term. Is a year enough to get the “prestige” of being an...Read more
Anyone do this? I'm already doing the LC Facebook problems. My recruiter sent me this. Startup cofounder, mainly equity. 15 yoe