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.
I cannot help but notice that most of my Facebook connections profile photo's are from like 2008-2014 time period. Remember how shitty the camera resolution was back then on your Nokia or Blackberry device. Moreover recall the bad taste in clothing and haircuts. Tc: 155k
Does Facebook take into account what’s in an applicant’s Facebook profile when hiring? Do they even ask for the applicant’s profile?
Is there a way to silently change my profile picture on Facebook without attracting any sort of attention? I don’t want it to post it to everyone’s feed that I have a new one now 🙈. It’s been 10 years since I last changed it. Tc : 165k Yoe : 5
How would I scan a Facebook profile to find anything racist, misogynistic, sexist, homophobic Etc.? Manually searching takes forever. 😒
Hi to all, Could you please specify if someone knows what where the characteristics of any of the people who got laid off through Meta & Twitter such decisions? With what criteria where those people chosen? They chose the ones with the least relevant education or the ones with the least relevant...Read more
Interviewing at FB currently and I cannot for my life login to my FB career profile. It doesn’t allow me to reset my password (I never get the password reset email) and my recruiter has no clue. She told me to clear my history and try and didn’t help. We are out of ideas, any thoughts / help?
Seriously stop it. First, nobody cares and secondly it makes you look douchy. TC: $500k
Hello all, I’m looking for potential TPM roles at meta/FB and have 7 yrs total experience. I’m about to get into L6 and looking for suggestions on what is the right level I should be looking in FB in the FRL division.
Made a profile at facebook careers but it’s broken. I’m redirected to metacareers where I am not logged in but I can’t login into meta. I’m always redirected to facebook careers. All the job postings are under metacareers which means I have to manually enter all my info every time. Anyone else hav...Read more
Can’t stalk anymore, zoom photo and take SS. Hate this feature! No wonders why people don’t wanna use this garbage app
Hi Meta folks, I'm in the team matching process. Currently there are 3 teams that want to talk with me. 2 of them from Reality Lab: Pillar: Reality Labs > VR, Team Name: VR Link Foundation Team: RL -> XR Tech -> XR Kit -> Spatial Entity Platforms Team: Profilers team (Fleet Wide Profiler
I applied to a role at Meta, after being laid off in November, and connected with a recruiter who is interested in considering me for a role. The recruiter was nice enough to try and help me; however, said that for some reason they're unable to action on my profile. Have any laid off Meta employees...Read more
I just was told that my profile is going to hiring committee, I dont have any expectation but would like to know what it means? Like the interviewers had positive feedback? PS: they asked for a reference, would it make anything to increase my chance?
#facebookdating Is there any workaround getting the facebook dating section back? I had it and someone falsely reported and they took it out. If someone from Facebook's engineering team can give me a tip to get this resolved, I would appreciate that. Its kinda affecting my dating life you know.
My meta profile is stuck at the result stage from 5 months now with no correspondence from recruiter. What may be the reason?
Was wondering if employees could see user's info/profile if they set Friends Only by just an email? Tc: 🥜 🥺
Have numerous accounts lately that have harvested pics from people I know IRL and made fake accounts of them. They try to add me and their profile is 100% spam crypto get rich stuff. I report these to Facebook but they don’t do anything - why even have the report feature?
Do you think Facebook is less likely to hire you if you dont use Facebook or Instagram?
been off since 09, mostly because anyone I care to hear from I'm actually friends with, and I'm not really interested in what anyone had for dinner last night. am I missing out? are there awesome new life altering features im not taking advantage of?
Today I was checking my Facebook profile and saw almost all current and past co-workers suggested in “People you may know”. How the hell do you know that all of them are/were related to me? For example, there was a co-worker from 7 years ago that I haven’t talked at all, but somehow FB knows that...Read more