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 found a parting love note in the diary my husband had brought home from Facebook/Meta. Apparently he didn’t know it existed and mentioned that he must have picked it up From a conference room. Upon confronting such unprofessionalism he says “ a lot of such things go on at Facebook”. Definitely fis...Read more
What should I expect in a video conference interview at facebook? Are these going to be similar to the onsite interviews?
Hey guys - I’ve applied and got my admission to the F8 conference but unfortunately don’t have $600 lying around to spend on a one day conference but I would really liked to go. I’m wondering if there’s any way to get a subsidized or (preferably) free admission. Just for context, I’m just an intern ...Read more
Anyone who has attended this invitation only conference before? Looking to gauge if it’s really worth the time in terms of making new connections/meeting folks at similar career stage.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/05/01/facebook-is-launching-a-dating-app.html
I have an offer from meta. However since i do some content creation like posting tech videos on social media and speak at conferences, i will have to take approvals to post things if i join meta. Does anyone know how difficult is the approval process?? Will i need to take approvals for every post ...Read more
Hello Is anyone attending f8? Is it worth spending $595 dollars ? Please share you your experience if you have previously attended
Of the ~20 or so MS folks here from across the company there's only 2 other actual developers. The rest are PM, leads, and biz ops. Why is this and do other companies represent like this too? I feel there should be more devs sent...
Hello Is anyone attending f8 2018 Is it worth spending $595? Please share your experience if you have attended previous years
https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/6/3/21278233/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-walkout-employee-meeting-leaked-audio #facebook #zuckerberg
Good turnout from the national labs, schools, and Amazon and Microsoft though. Surprised there isn't more involvement by other companies with big investments in large data centers.
Did a video conference interview with FB Data Scientist role in the analytics team; got rejection this morning. But I thought the interview went well, and the interviewer seemed to be happy about my answers. Not sure what went wrong. Is there anything FB specifically looking for during the 1st roun...Read more
My interview with Meta failed. It was a bad interview experience. The interviewer was late, then he couldn't open the interview tool, then he changed the conference room. During the interview, he didn't ask for clarification or discussed but just told me what he thought, which was wrong after I did ...Read more
Looks like she has Instagram and Facebook and what appears to be Blind on Home Screen but not X. (Snap from Code conference 2023) #X #Twitter #tech #hardcore
My English is bad :-( I hear my manager on phone in conference room mad about not get laid. This sadden me because Facebook laid 25% workforce, airbnb laid many, Amazon laid Many, but we never laid anyone. It hurt people life when laid. Why must my manager be evil???
What TC can I expect as a deep learning researcher in a top AI department Like Google AI / Facebook AI research / Salesforce research / Nvidia etc. Background -MSc -10 papers (1 in top AI conference) -3 yoe, mainly in academia
At Meta for 2 years and can say that Meta waste a lot of money. It doesn't feel like they spend money responsibly. Some of the things like - Phone / Laptop renewal every 2 years vs standard 3 years. Data Center hardware renewal every 3 years (AWS is 5 and Azure is 6 years). - Business class interna...Read more
I am on the other side of the country. Uber and Amazon have both allowed video conference. Does Facebook?
google is canceling onsite version of annual developers conference less than a week after FB did the same. https://events.google.com/io/ Apple?