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.
This is a perfect demographic match for Nextdoor users. Take note, Sundar and Mark.
Anyone experience with FB/YouTube/Instagram advertisement. Is it still worth or saturated to jump on.
Is it true that Facebook gives $250 Facebook ad credits to be used by them or relatives every month as a perk for Full time employees?
Received an e5 offer. How is advertising infrastructure team at fb? Looking for backend positions.
Verizon, Coca-cola, Unilever, etc. recently stopped advertisting on Facebook protesting its inability to delete hate speech. I am not a heavy fb user, and the hate speeches are difficult to “search” specifically. So I am curious what kind of hate speech these companies are protesting specifically?...Read more
Should Facebook allow lies in political advertising? (Republicans pushed Zuckerberg to allow lies in political advertising during libra hearing)
They are paying a lot of money to have their logos on the court. My theory is that they committed to it ~1 year ago. Couldn’t get out of that commitment. Idk, meta alone just did thousand of layoffs. I’d think they’d pull it if they could. Nobody buying those damn headsets right now.. Tc open to w...Read more
It seems the fundamental problem with privacy on Facebook is that Facebook has a primary motive to violate privacy by selling private user data to advertisers. It's a fundamental conflict of interest that will probably never be resolved so long as companies like Facebook are allowed to sell advertis...Read more
It's an advertising platform that wrings pennies out of users' scrap time—attention that would otherwise go to waste Prove me wrong 👇
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Isn't this a very negative signal for fb? What gives? Please educate me if I’m missing something here. Apple’s privacy changes must have affected snap and Pinterest as well, no? Then why did they do well? 🤔 (since some idiots will ask - No, i've not been rejected by fb and the objective of this p...Read more
Google is an advertising company Meta is an advertising company Amazon is just a mall Netflix is a slightly better version of cable (if they ever have ads then it will become worse) Apple is the only FAANG that produces interesting products but it is hardware focused - bad for SWE. Y’all are si...Read more
Have read about issues with advertiser ROIs here https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-10/meta-s-automated-advertising-system-is-on-the-fritz-marketers-say Is there a real problem or is this anecdotal? Some suggesting Meta is getting hit with fake traffic? What could explain this
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I don’t see anyone use Meta products. Companies will stop advertising eventually People use WhatsApp but it’s not really monetized
Seems like due to DOJ lawsuit against FB that claims Facebook didn’t follow hiring practices and advertising for the Perm positions, no PERM application for Facebook has been approved since 2021 started. If you know international people who are joining Facebook tell them not to join right now and w...Read more
See a bunch of posts on Linkedin advertising positions in Meta and Microsoft. Are we back guys? TC 460k
If TikTok is getting banned then it’s a boon for meta advertising right? Worth investing in meta stock now with target of 240$ in 6 months? TC:138 Yoe:3 #personalfinance #investments