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.
My profile was supposed to delete tomorrow but I changed my mind today and decided to login and got this message, WTF. It’s still February 14. How y’all getting paid so much over there?
People who put their instagram on dating app bios are open to receiving a DM? What if it is a private profile? #dating #relationships
Saw my Instagram profile open in a tab while Manager (she) was screen sharing her screen. She forgot to close the tab - this was visible to everyone in the meeting. TC - disappointed
https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2019/10/28/instagram-now-forces-people-to-sign-in-to-view-public-profiles/ “This is to help people see photos on Instagram and then understand how to get the best Instagram experience by being part of the community, connecting and interacting with the people and t...Read more
And they dropped this announcement during the WC final. But already 85k+ quote tweets (hello barbara streisand). Is this Elon admitting Twitter sucks? And asking creators to f*** off. Even linktree is banned. 😂 #tech #twitter
Do you find these type of accounts weird?
Asking mostly because I downloaded an app that told me about at least some “profile interactions” (not sure how legit) and it made me wonder if it’s possible for an ex (or similar) to see that you’ve been viewing their profile
"your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram profile" Source: https://help.instagram.com/515230437301944 #tech
As the title says. The new feature is if you swipe left you go to the profile. But when scrolling one hand swiping up can easily can detected as swipe left or right. I constantly getting into the profile of the poster. This is super annoying. Any one internal at Instagram? #instagram #bug
I don’t use insta frequently. Recently I downloaded to get clothes recommendations and theres a friends profile that keeps popping up in my feed. Why is that? Are they stalking my profile or does it have something related to my activities in the past in Insta? Any avid Insta users? TC:150
…your instagram profile is full of obviously staged and postprocessed modelesque pics of you in sheer bikinis that are see-thru to your nipples? I saw an actual person in a Product Design role doing this.
All I see is half-naked girls on my explore feed, even though I only follow music-related profiles, such as music producers. Even when marking those posts as "Not interested", I am still getting similar posts recommended. What went wrong? #tech #instagram #ig #meta #algorithm #algo
This is something I am shooting in the dark who are working for Insta. There is this profile named “karma_blacknwhite” who is posting some private conversations of WhatsApp and bullying my sister. Can someone help to take this profile down? #instagram #facebook #insta #meta #cyberbullying #harrass...Read more
If I say I work at Google or Facebook, Airbnb hides the company name on my traveler profile. "Netflix" and "Instagram" are fine. What's the deal?
On my Instagram home, I see more and more suggested posts and ads rather than profiles I follow. Meta is declining in quality across applications.
I’m going to delete my Facebook and Instagram profiles but I’m curious if doing so indirectly effects engineers TC at meta. I wouldn’t want that to happen. #meta
Team matched with a couple teams, any meta engineers care to give me their opinions? Oncall experience? And wlb? 1) Instagram Trust - working on protection to like threads, phising scam, impersonation and authenticity, impactful space: work on features to make ig safer, no prior knowledge for secur...Read more
Why do some people share their IG profiles on Tinder? does this mean I can message them on IG? Sick of being single + being alone quarantined since my friends all left where I’m located at (nyc). desperate to meet someone
Does instagram algorithm penalize profiles who do growth hacking techniques - such as follow unfollow, engagement group, etc.