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 searched for meta layoffs on Linkedin, and 80% of them are engineering leaders and UX researchers
Headline: Zuck announces that Meta will begin ramping hiring back up after record Q4 profits . Are we going to ignore the fact that engineers got laid off within a week of joining after relocation? #engineering #meta
Sharing this here for those who may be impacted by the layoffs. #meta #layoffs UPDATE (3/10): VP’s have been given cautionary advisory. Orgs that will be impacted have been told to cancel all travel plans including Offsites. Check with your VPs. If they cancel travel then your org is impacted. UPD...Read more
https://www.wsj.com/articles/metas-mark-zuckerberg-says-he-is-accountable-as-company-preps-for-mass-layoffs-11667941107 published Tuesday 4:18 PM ET "Meta Platforms Inc. will begin laying off employees on Wednesday morning, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told hundreds of executives on Tuesday. Th...Read more
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-facebook-messenger-hit-with-layoffs-2024-3 Facebook messenger hit with layoffs. It’s only around 1000 but all tpm roles have been eliminated. TC: 450k
Wife was laid off just now. For those who have been laid off, what do you wish you heard when you found out? She seems to be experiencing what looks like shock, embarrassment, disappointment and a sense of just profound loss. Unfortunately Meta has been a such a big part of our lives for almost a d...Read more
Meta Plans Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as This Week. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-07/meta-is-said-to-plan-thousands-more-layoffs-as-soon-as-this-week #meta
$META is expected to conduct another mass round of layoffs tomorrow, up to 4,000, per Vox. Breaking news waiting for a link https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/meta-to-lay-off-4-000-this-week-report-6539378
Finally, some sensible layoffs. Middle managers are the worst! https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/science-technology/managers-managing-managers-meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-hints-at-further-layoffs-475027
I'm happy it's over. Happy I get to keep my house, at least for a little while longer. No guarantee I won't get laid off again lol Got laid off by Meta back in November and have been prepping and interviewing ever since. Seeing my colleagues placing instantly really messed with me. I'm LCOL so I wa...Read more
I wanted to create a thread to help affected people (any company). People from other companies please comment if you want impacted people to reach out to you for referral. As I mentioned a couple of days ago (flagged by everyone lol) that Zuck's original plan is to layoff 15-20% employees in short ...Read more
When Meta had its first set of layoffs - Zuckerberg said he takes full responsibility for it. So what exact repercussions is he facing ? He made a terrible bet with some of the projects, hired so many engineers and now he is letting everyone go like a flock of sheep. This is a prime example of when...Read more
Meta is laying off .. WTF... Recession is coming? 2008 repeats? https://fortune.com/2022/05/05/meta-netflix-robinhood-tech-budget-costs-layoffs-hiring-freeze/ Tc:180 #severance #metalayoff #layoff #layoffs
We all know the PM who’s making TikToks at work and the company is full of people like that. Low stock price won’t let us burn billions into Reality Labs. If the leadership wants to continue investing into AR/VR then they need to trim the fat right now. Not only will it make the stock bounce but al...Read more
Heard from a D1 at Facebook that Facebook will layoff ~12% of its staff. He stated that slowing growth and declining users especially in core Facebook platform is accelerating. Will be announced mid June, hang in there!
As Metaverse is dead, Meta will do more layoffs? Around another 30-40k?
* Not at Meta right now but supposed to have onsite SWE interviews today but it was cancelled on the same day! Seeing that lots of offers getting rescinded, what's happening? Anyone knows? Based on the stock price it's supposed to be good isn't it * Same happened with the Google onsite but at least...Read more
This looks kinda shitty.. "Hey buddy, we wanna be better, so bug off". Lol. He could have just said he was taking responsibility.. TC: 320K YOE: 7