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 Metaβs 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 canβt trust anyone. It would probably be easier to work two remote jobs at βless prestigiousβ 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 youβre proactive and document everything thoroughly, youβre 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 itβs possible youβll have a manager younger than you, even if youβre 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 canβt find a way, they are often trying to invent things you did wrong. This isnβt a dealbreaker because as long as youβre 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. thereβs a lot of internal conflict because itβs very authoritarian, also fairly draconian, and itβs 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 isnβt really the problem because guess what? Itβs 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. itβs 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.
Google (excellent wlb, good pay, no remote, excellent brand for resume/flexing) > Apple (ok wlb, good pay, no remote, job security) > Microsoft (remote friendly, excellent wlb, peanut pay in HCOL but acceptable in MCOL/LCOL for remotes where Maang is nonexistent, OpenAi hype) > Meta (high pa
How is the team in both MPK and Seattle? Is it okay for an engineer with no ML experience? How is the wlb? Is it good for career growth? YOE: 2 TC: 190k
Why? Even apple is beating meta 70-30 in prestige polls. This was not the case last year. Is it the stock drop that is hurting meta? Or is it the metaverse metamate cringe fest thatβs hurting it? https://us.teamblind.com/s/c8MKzKua
By talking to some Meta managers, they said there is no stack ranking. There's is no quota. They only pip or let go people when that member can't meet the bar, not comparing the member to the peers, where Amazon is clearly comparing the peers. Some members on blinds specifically say, there is stack ...Read more
Is it similar to Amazon where youβre compared to your peers? or is your performance measured by your individual impact?
I hear if you get 2 meet most then you are put on pip? Does these 2 meet most have to be continuous or any point of time in career? Can people share performance rating policies in meta. Are these every quarter or yearly?
Hi, I'm currently a E3 engineer at FB, approaching 1 year mark. Facebook is my first job out of undergrad. I work on ranking problems for user value (product side of things rather than ads). A recruiter recently reached out regarding an Ads Ranking role at Snap. I like my work & team, so the only...Read more
Currently considering offers. Money for new offers is in the same ballpark, I will post offers once finalized. Curious about work culture. Is it amazon << stripe < Doordash < meta? Poll for worst work culture.
Hey blinders, Since meta asked me to provide location preference for new grad/E3 roles. I was wondering what the pay adjustment are if we consider Menlo Park at 100%.(between MPK/Bay area, LA, Seattle, WFH) Also how would you rank the aboce offices and why? TC: 0 #facebook #meta #wfh
Hello, Iβm a college grad and Iβm bootcamping at Facebook rn. Iβm thinking of joining a ranking team where Iβd do building and training ML models for suggestions and so on. Do you guys think itβs a good place to start for my career? Iβm in Menlo Park, CA TC: 175k
https://us.teamblind.com/s/cSEk0pXN Didnβt expect such a big margin.
I got a verbal offer at Meta yesterday and wanted to know how the Ads Ranking Calibration team was since I will be talking to them this coming week. They seem to be doing more core Ads stack work in Bellevue. Any information about them or the Bellevue location? TC: 230K
Metamates, any thoughts on the events ranking team at Meta? what are some pros and cons? good place to grow career? it's a fairly small team and seems under-invested compared to ad space, which has 90% of the other teams #meta
Y'all need to admit it, both Stripe and and Facebook have curve fitting aka stack ranking. Both have ranges(10-15%) for bottom performers or bottom buckets and these bottom performers with 2 back to back low rating will be pipped. By the time you get your first bottom rating you can pretty much sta...Read more
I was in top 5% (1700th out of 35000 participants) at fb hacker cup last year and received a top-2000 t-shirts. Would you put that into your resume? If no, why? Further info, I am an ML researcher. TC:210k
I heard from a friend that the fb dating match taking team is in NY. How do I convey to her that my expertise in matching algorithms will make me a perfect match?β€οΈ I got an email from recruiter who said they'd were moving forward with other candidates for the NY positions I applied for, but have a...Read more
Is it better to do the bootcamp process at any one time? And what do I need to do to get into these type of teams? @Facebook
From your experience, list out the hardest to easiest interviews by company. And if you want, share with the community why your ranking is what it is. TC: 155K YOE: 6 @google @meta @facebook @netflix @apple @amazon @bloomberg @microsoft @goldmansachs @etsy @paypal @stripe @coinbase @atlassian @ube...Read more