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.
Just had my FB virtual onsite this week and I'm pretty happy with my performance. The recruiter sent me an email afterwards saying she "saw positive feedback earlier". Only thing I'm worried about is the level of competition I'm playing against. Will my chances of getting an offer be reduced due to...Read more
Is there generally competition between applicants for specific positions or is it always an offer if you pass the Hiring Committee? I interviewed for a relatively specialized position. I made it to the hiring committee and had to do a follow up on system design - awaiting latest feedback now. I'm ju...Read more
FB competition (specially TikTok) gives a sh*t about controlling what is in their platform, and shrug to the fact there is a lot of young people exposing their bodies in very explicit ways. What makes me nuts is that apparently nobody cares when it comes to TikTok, but same crowd loves jumping and t...Read more
I have been in the industry for almost 12 years. I wear a lot of hats before joining PwC. But have always stayed close to coding. I mean during development phase, I spend 80% of time coding. Since, I didn't have a badge to prove that I can be an E5 or E6 (or may be based on the examples I used duri...Read more
I’ll pick my 5 best Meta colleagues. Google can pick their team. Nvidia can pick theirs. And so on. Meta will win hands down. We should air the competition live on cable television, similar to family feud. Meta would run circles around everyone else. You all would eat Meta dust
Is there a same level competition like 3 E3s in a team and only one can be promoted to E4 on each half, or there can be multiple promotions at the same time?
It’s obvious they have no actual talent. Too much leetcoders too little real engineers. Take an entire day to resolve outages. The moment competition comes along that they cannot buy they are being crushed. Kinda sad.
Seeing more than 90% content based on their suggestions and hardly any of what I already follow. Screw that I am out! 180 3
True or false? Best way to be anti competitive legally is to have the government do it for you. Should private businesses police free speech? Do you agree? Tc: 220k
Wondering if all the people memorizing leetcode problems mean you have to do them super fast just to stand a chance.
$META down 15% after disaster earnings This is what happens when Zuck tries to ban competition like TikTok.
Meta stock fell about 15% after they reported their earnings at market close. I think the reason for the fall is the tiktok ban and conditions around it. I think the big guys know tiktok is gonna be swooped up by some American company. It would be stupid not to. They make money, people like it and ...Read more
I see companies slowly posting new jobs everyday - Stripe, netflix, facebook, google, amazon!! Is there a lot of competition out there for all these jobs ? And again why do they want to hire outsiders while they laid off many competent employees themselves ??!!
Meta is why our salaries are so high. If they layoff broadly, we lose a major TC booster which has kept other companies competitive in TC. Also they will inject top talent and Leetcode magicians back into the talent pool, who are willing to take a pay cut. You face more desperate competition. So p...Read more
Elon: "Competition is fine, cheating is not." Meta did systematic, wilful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property to create Threads. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1677042708756439041?s=46&t=Sjluoz4S7cNVuxMuAu4u9A https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/0...Read more
I think with offer competition, Meta will pay about 15% more than Google. Given that, which one will you work for? Meta was chaos in the first half but clearly came back in Aug.
Any opinion on Patreon? Is the company doing good/bad/ugly? What about competition from Google "Join" buttons and Facebook fan subscriptions?
In the next few months, the people who were laid off recently are going to be in the job market. Make no mistake, these are people from Meta, Amazon, Salesforce etc. who are very smart and have cleared high hiring bars in the past. With so many of these in the market, the competition is going to be ...Read more
Given the competition it is facing from TikTok, and the Metaverse which burns 10b and facing competition from Apple, how do you guys think of the future of Meta?