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.
Some cool kid at Facebook thought asking Tarjan algorithm related problem will be a great test to see my problem solving skills!
Anyone else notice that Facebooks news feed algorithm got better? It is finally showing me my friends posts again after years of BS memes and ads.
Which algorithm does Facebook use for friend suggestions and mutual friends? Is it a breadth first search?
Could someone share their interview experience for 👆position at Meta? TC: $200K YOE: 10+
I have a FB Tech Program Manager inteview. This is my prep for System Design and Algorithms System Design - Grokking the System Design Interview and practise a few Facebook Applications like WhatsApp etc Algorithms : Following chapters in Gayle Laakmann Book - Arrays, Linked List, Stack and Queues...Read more
I have an onsite Technical PM Facebook round. Will studying Gayle Laakmann 189 questions be enough. Any other reference material. Thanks
I have a facebook Bluejeans interview with coding. position is DSP Audio Algorithm engineer. The recruiter mentioned that I should expect DSP related C questions. I am not a CS guy, so cannot cover length and breadth of data structures/Algorithms.in short time. However, I wanted to get an idea of...Read more
These are the questions https://www.algoexpert.io/questions What topics are missing from this list?
https://nypost.com/2022/08/19/facebook-parent-meta-lays-off-60-workers-at-random-using-algorithm-report/
Meta onsite interview is in 1.5 weeks. I solved around 50LCs (easy + mid) and definitely don't feel like I'm ready. Does Meta frequently ask graph algorithms other than good ol' DFS, BFS? I'm talking about algos like topological sort, shortest path, union find etc I'm trying to decide what to spen...Read more
tc:155k What makes Instagram decide to rank your story viewers is real interesting , I thought it was just mutual engagement but then I would get accounts I rarely engage with at the top and ones I do stalk at the bottom. What is it? #tech
META - Is there any oversight into your banning algorithms? My wife got banned for posting photos of the squirrels we are rehabilitating saying "my sons love nuts" and she's appealed it 5 times and they told her she is violating community guidelines. She also got a guideline violation for telling m...Read more
Recently half of my comments on Instagram are auto removed within about 30 seconds, supposedly because they are spam. The message tells me not to post links or content that misleads people into liking my posts. None of the comments have contained links or asked for likes in any manner. There is no w...Read more
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-contract-workers-accenture-austin-lost-jobs-2022-8
Hey Folks, Practicing algorithms and data structures for interviewing at Facebook and google. Planning for doing this for the next 2.5 months 4 hrs everyday. It will be more challenging and fun if you are also looking for a change to team up and do this together. Any of you folks interested? I am ...Read more
All Facebook problems are on leetcode. I interviewed at Facebook earlier and literally every question are exactly the same as leetcode. Since all questions are public, is the Facebook bar about memorizing the solution, not how to solve new problems?
I observed an instance where Hindi language written in English script was correctly translated by Facebook. This is impressive. See screenshot. I have also observed that the translation quality has improved dramatically. I know that Facebook used to rely on Bing translation. I assume they have thei...Read more
https://nypost.com/2022/08/19/facebook-parent-meta-lays-off-60-workers-at-random-using-algorithm-report/ tc: 120k base, $170k RSUs
After all of my attempts at reaching FB support, I humbly come to Blind for assistance from a FB Systems Engineer, Support Engineer or Algorithms Engineer. I think there may be something wrong with the algorithm FB is using to temporarily restrict accounts. It seems as if the algorithm woke up one m...Read more
Many of the model profiles are obvious scammers from a particular country asking to take the conversation right away to WhatsApp to talk about crypto. You would think that it being an app developed by a FAANG, it would have the best scammer/bot detecting AI/ML algorithms. This isn’t as apparent in m...Read more