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.
You know what you are going to get when you login to Facebook or Instagram. Facebook will have all random shit and you know before you login you are going to consume that garbage. You login to Instagram to see friends updates or to freshen up your mind by seeing reels. At the end this is the same ga...Read more
IG's just a platform. It didn't create a toxic culture of self-comparison to peers. The algorithm is not optimized to perpetuate the problem either, it's merely showing what people want to see. People will always find a medium to engage in this ancient behavior, with or without IG. In the age of...Read more
Be honest what percentage of your feed posts are bikini models?
As part of switching to full time entrepreneurship, trying to collect new video platform ideas from Blind audience. Thoughts? yoe: 3+ tc: 55lpa
Why? Why does it let third-party apps and softwares make money as intermediary between influencers and brands? It can launch it's own influencer marketing platform and save a lot of costs and make big money with it. # facebook #instagram #influencermarketing #tech
Top 10 Countries with the Highest Number of Facebook Users (2020-2021): India — 416.6 million United States — 240.0 million Indonesia — 176.5 million Brazil — 139.0 million Philippines — 91.0 million Mexico — 78.0 million Vietnam 75.9 million Thailand — 58.5 million Japan — 55.8 million Pakistan — ...Read more
Are any of you Google employees paying attention to what is going on in YouTube and on Instagram? You have a woman with 500k+ followers threatning to shoot reporters and process servers.. she made TMZ yesterday... I'm trying to figure out how you guys have not stepped in and shut her accounts and ch...Read more
How often you turn to social media family to make decisions in your life. Major or trivial decisions you need social affirmation/confirmation.
It looks like a robbery to me. It’s clearly a rising promising social platform which potentially be next youtube or instagram. and have proven its monetization ability in douyin. Ban or sell doesnt look like free market.
Which one sounds better? Any Meta folks please explain why you voted a certain way Full stack product team for Instagram Ads/Monetization iOS platform/infra team for Instagram Metrics
Most of the girls I meet between 21 and 25 are on OF or some other platform to make money. They drop their OF handles in conversation and texts like wtf? I don’t get it, is OF like the Instagram of GenZ?
An anonymous platform now has stories like snap or insta. Is this in A/B testing phase ? Lets find out, answer the poll
I’m about to go on a first date with this guy. I noticed he follows a lot of female “fitness influencers” on instagram. They’re basically just scantily clad women in tight clothes bending over a lot and lifting. I completely understand that everyone watches porn and am clearly not judging that. But...Read more
My impression is that one thing Meta has done, especially since 2016, is really nail advertiser friendly moderation. That is, every part of the platform is somewhere an advertisement can be safely placed. The problem with this as applied to threads vs Instagram or Facebook, is a core feature of Twi...Read more
All platforms are down. What did you do? #tech #facebook #facebookculture #FB #Insta
How many of yall at instagram, messenger, and fb are working on your holiday today? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/11/28/20987004/facebook-instagram-down-thanksgiving-messenger-problems-outages
No info yet.. all platforms down (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram). Is it a hack or not? What do you wish it is? 😉 #facebook
Create a separate app instead of integrating Reels into Instagram and Shorts to YouTube. Dedicated platforms and having ui ux custom fit for TikTok like platforms is the way to go
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/technology/2023/4/18/23688627/meta-layoffs-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-instagram-whatsapp All the best and hang in there! ( if you do get impacted, it’s not the end of the world. I shave been laid off twice and both times it led to something better). TC 450k Yoe 15 ...Read more
With all the big players (IG, TikTok, Youtube) entering the Reels market, do you think LinkedIn should start allowing reels on their platform too? It's already basically like IG except with cringe captions and made-up stories. #tech #linkedin #reels #instagram #meta