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.
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The UI is so terrible. Video UI is so bad and hard to see comments. There are many ads #instagram #bad
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What is it actually like to work as a Designer at Instagram? Is it really PM and AB test based? Can you actually do and ship holistic design? What's the design culture like? #design #ui/ux #instagram
Create a separate app instead of integrating Reels into Instagram and Shorts to YouTube. Dedicated platforms and having ui ux custom fit for TikTok like platforms is the way to go
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For me, it is Instagram and YouTube Vanced. The regular YouTube app is becoming very bad in terms of UI/UX. What are your favourite apps?
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Hello everyone, I am graduating in next from University of Maryland with masters in human centered computing , can any please refer me to the positions like UI/UX DESIGN or PRODUCT DESIGN at companies like Walmart, adobe,zendesk,Intel,yelp,GrubHub,doordash,sap,visa,Intuit,Twitter, MailChimp,Lyft, I...Read more
Hello everyone, I recently graduated from a top CS school and just applied for a product designer (university grad) role at Meta. Please let me know if someone can refer me 🙏🏻🙏🏻 thank you so much for your help! #referral #referrals #job #jobhunt #newgrad #instagram #meta #design #productdesign...Read more
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Maybe it's just me but I opened Facebook UI after years to list an item to sell. But the UI feels so outdated, it has everything and nothing at the same time. Instagram has limited features maybe that's why the UI seems bearable. But Facebook seems like a clusterfuck of everything. There is no sense...Read more
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