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.
So I got a real estate license so I can help my family/friends and eventually myself buy/sell houses, so I kinda have a part time business while I work full time as a software engineer. Since I have a business Instagram, I wanted to make sure my manager doesn’t see it, so I was curious as to if I c...Read more
Friendly advice to all who are planning to do MS and are planning to come to US. Rethink or talk to people before making decisions. Life here is not what you see in the instagram. Visa issues are not going to resolve for next 20 yrs. So don’t hope that. And with Visa, you will live in constant fear ...Read more
Cleared E5 onsite and was matched with the Instagram Business Ads team a week ago Anyone have an idea whats the scope and stability of their work? Would love if any metamates shared team insights tool info (DM) YOE: 5 Old TC: 🥜 New TC: Waiting for Team Match Role: Product Generalist #tech #soft...Read more
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
1. Google search massively threatened by Amazon product search, Tiktok, Instagram, Airbnb etc. 2. Google cloud is so far behind azure and aws 3. Netflix partnered with Microsoft for ad business 4. Hiring slowdowns
I have an Instagram account for my business, and someone apparently created another Instagram account which also identifies as being for my business. This other account doesn't seem to be active and hasn't posted anything for a long time, yet I would like to have it deleted since it is not mine and ...Read more
WHAT customer service teams?!? Hilarious!! I have a FB business page for 8 years with 50k followers and ZERO support from FB. Maybe 5 years ago there was support for a few months and then it just vanished. #layoff #meta #facebook https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/6/23672420/meta-layoffs-customer-supp...Read more
I’m struggling to verify my Instagram business account despite fulfilling the eligibility criteria. If anyone can help please reach out to me. I can pay for your help! #tech #meta #instagram #verification
No other country is going to be on receiving end of AI as India. Tons of jobs are going to be anhilated. Guess India becoming a super power is merely the stuff of dreams. Keep dreaming https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-04-17/chatgpt-ai-github-copilot-for-coding-threatens-india-tech-jo...Read more
Your fucking PIP machine is hurting your end users drastically you complete morons The IG business tools UI is glitchy and consistently errors out with “unknown errors” after tremendous lag times when attempting to boost posts. Every time it happens I have to uninstall and reinstall the IG app on m...Read more
I’ll be joining Facebook soon. Could anyone provide insights for the following teams? - Business directory - Instagram - Messenger infra - Live publishing - Location infra What’s the balance between interesting work, impact, and WLB like on these teams? Do they look for specific expertise?#swe #en...Read more
The EU is investigating whether Instagram broke data-privacy laws after it allegedly exposed the personal data of millions of children, the Telegraph reports. It follows a complaint from a US data scientist, who last year said that Instagram allowed underage users to publicly display their phone nu...Read more
Is it because Scale at which the companies operate? Or is it popularity of companies among common users. Like billion users for Google maps/instagram /Amazon is common: but many users doesn't know about Salesforce - even though the products (businesses) they use might use Salesforce as their CRM.
Mgr had an unscheduled meeting today and told me I’ll be part of the upcoming headcount reduction. Got 2 weeks to look for roles/opps. I do process and automation. Leave me a note or DM with any open roles at companies yall know. Thank you. 2 Blessed 2 Be Stressed TC: Ligma Edit: What I do, sin...Read more
Edited to provide source: I see Meta is downsizing and 'giving' impacted employees 30 days to find a new role in the company. While business conditions may warrant this, has anyone on the exec team taken responsibility for over-hiring and the proliferation of non-impactful projects? Asking for a cou...Read more
My wife and I run a business that we regularly run ads for, however since February every ad we post gets rejected with no explanation and our personal accounts have been action blocked from liking or commenting on anything. Today we finally got a more descriptive rejection message, saying that our a...Read more
We had a clean and very tasteful Instagram account of almost 35k followers get disabled for "violating community guidelines". We are a fully compliant and California state licensed cannabis vape pen brand and everyone thinks we went out of business. It's actually quite the opposite, we are operating...Read more
Seriously, Pinterest, Snapchat and Twitter are in similar league but looking at Pinterest Is this a school project? There’s lot of cool ML engineers working there I know but UI/UX, utility, business strategy is pure garbage. For good UI/UX , interaction look at LinkedIn Instagram Behance Snapc...Read more
i have a couple instagram accounts. 1 personal, the rest for a couple businesses i run... i noticed a couple of the business accounts dont view or share Like Count... i like it. But it Seems like they’ve been testing this feature for almost a year now. any updates?
Folks have hated Zuck for years - Cambridge analytica - election interference - IGs effects on young girls and women - creating a super polarized society - formenting g3nocide in Myanmar Yet, he makes tons of profits for shareholders Small businesses need to be in fb to reach audiences FB mar...Read more