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.
Hey PM's, I'm currently on the B2B side of PM and wondering others' experience with major consumer products like YouTube, Uber, or Instagram? What's work-life balance like (say for a. L5/E5)?? What do you like/dislike?
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Kids no longer post on Instagram. Even I, a 27 yo millenial, hardly check the gram. Most of the original COVID19 content is being made on TikTok. Instagram has become mostly annoying ads and recycled weeks old memes. Too bad FB can’t simply copy TikTok’s features (IGTV is a flop 🤣).
With the IG account dependencies, and lack of many core features, Threads feels more like an IG feature than it’s own app. Prove me wrong! TC: 700k YOE: old
..Is everything OK? Feeds and other features appear hard down. TC 230 #instagram #meta
Title says it all. I see so many simple features broken on YouTube app and instagram. All those Algo coding rounds just to hire terrible developers that can’t code simple features. What’s the difference then? I am a Frontend engineer and don’t understand why faang ask LC. #faang #leetcode #intervie...Read more
My Instagram account still doesn’t have a lot of the new features being rolled out, notably the polls that are present in the story feature. My hunch is that there’s a bunch of feature flags that are being switched on for subsets of the user base. Anyone at Insta want to help a brotha out? Gotta ha...Read more
The app is already made. Insta is working fine, fb is and so is whatsapp. What more new features would engineers add? Is it more of maintenance? I don’t see room for adding new features in these apps. It’s already too cluttered. My proposal is they layoff 75% of workforce and keep the remaining for ...Read more
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/06/08/apple-ios-15-new-social-features-will-compete-more-with-facebook.html?__source=instagram%7Cmain
Team matched with a couple teams, any meta engineers care to give me their opinions? Oncall experience? And wlb? 1) Instagram Trust - working on protection to like threads, phising scam, impersonation and authenticity, impactful space: work on features to make ig safer, no prior knowledge for secur...Read more
Would you bet on it? What is stopping the stock? Edit : Please consider all products under the FB umbrella before dismissing it 🙂 Whatsapp, Instagram, Occulus and features like Market Place, Shops etc
The metaverse is a huge boondoggle. Lots of Facebook and Instagram products and features have potential but are glitchy and half finished. Facebook dating is a terrible product, Marketplace has errors that have gone unfixed for months, users can't really contact the company for account recovery. N...Read more
Is that not one of the obvious features you guys should support? I mean “post” not story. Even facebook has this feature. #Instagram
What's the point of giving all 3 apps the same features? They are supposed to be unique in their own sense, people want to limit WhatsApp to family, Instagram to close friends and Facebook non existent I beleive. I hate to see the channels features in WhatsApp it's very annoying, do they really con...Read more
Help guys. I love my girlfriend dearly, but she works at fb and has drunk so much koolaid that sometimes its unbearable. Tonight i casually mentioned that fb is copying snapchat features as a way to crush snapchat and she got offended 😭😭😭😭 “no fb is original in what they do. You cant prove that ...Read more
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/bereal-hot-social-media-app-1367415/amp/ Privacy, close circle interaction only, ephemeral messaging, feeds, this app has it all. Is it going to be the next big thing sending Insta and Snapchat to 💀💀💀 TC: 446K/5 YOE
As US politicians discuss the possibility of a TikTok ban, ByteDance has released a new app called Lemon8, which includes features that are similar to Instagram and Canvas. This suggests that even if TikTok is banned in the West, there may still be viable alternatives available from ByteDance.
I liked when WhatsApp was WhatsApp. Simple messaging app. After meta takeover it has gone insanely down. Not liking the features at all. Channels have been introduced so that we can be forcefully fed with the unwanted content and what not. What's your take on the recent developments? #tech #WhatsApp...Read more
I am thinking about shorting Snapchat for long term. I have been having this thought ever since instagram started story features. I see most of my friends and family abandon Snap longtime ago and don’t how Snapchat compete with Facebook. Any thoughts or opinions on company’s outlook or stock perfo...Read more
What do those on the inside feel about the constant stream of copycat features and products being introduced in FB and IG? It's definitely a theme. Putting aside that it's a great strategy to crush smaller competitors.