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.
Why would we need 2 social networks 3 years from now? Aren’t the social networks sharing users? Curious to know what FB/ IG employees think
Do you agree? On many posts, the replies are hilarious and many times I can't control my laugh. The anonymity brings brutal honesty which is nice. Also i think most people are from tech on Blind and hence things are more relatable. Of course, people are amazingly intelligent, so the level of humor ...Read more
There are redundant databases, networks, data centers and regions even. What can bring down 3 major systems this way? Any inputs? Facebook Instagram Whatsapp #facebook #whatsapp #instagram
Now that The Boomer Wasteland (Facebook) along with Instagram is redesigning itself to be more like TikTok, and Snapchat being pushed to the edge of oblivion, will the algorithmically generated feeds become the standard everywhere? Do you agree with people who are calling it the end of social networ...Read more
Looking at you Etsy. Curious how performance is between channels like Affiliate publisher network Google shopping Bing shopping Instagram Facebook Google displays network Pinterest Are Meta and Google shopping most performant? How well does GDN stack up?
Is it more like “Design Instagram”, “Design Twitter”? Or is it more about Network services? Or is it LLD? Or is it team dependent? Didn’t find any info on blind or Glassdoor. Can someone shed some light?
I’m NOT referring to professional networks like LinkedIn as social media. Let’s say Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and the like. #misc #randomquestion
My brother showed me this event's details on his phone. We briefly talked about this. I didn't search for it on my device. We share same Wifi. When I opened Instagram after 5-10 minutes, the first thing I saw was this ad. How does it work? - Location? - IP? - Internet history of all the devices ...Read more
Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads, releases on the 6th. It has a very similar interface to Twitter and provides roughly the same experience. You can login with your Instagram account and migrate followers to the platform. This will give them a huge network boost right off the start and a much faste...Read more
FB was cool decade ago. Instagram is not as popular as it was 5 years back. Snap is also dying company. TikTok is a new company and maybe in their prime age. New generation don't want to be on a same platform with older generation. Boomers are on FB, millennials are on Insta/Snap, Gen Z is using Ti...Read more
Maybe metrics are beaming and Facebook today is cashing in more money than ever, but anybody with a minimum vision should see Facebook is dead for the upcoming generations. It has become an old folks and 3rd world social network. What are the plans internally? Focus on IG and bet heavily in ARVR? ...Read more
Facebook and Instagram growth was driven by network effect . Friends joined, more friends were invited and joined and then it became the popular place people spent time. Naturally advertising followed and the $$$ Now people are spending less time on FB and IG , and then their friends spend less tim...Read more
The lawsuit, filed in December 2020 by the Federal Trade Commission, centers on Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, which the FTC argues stifled competition in the market for social networks 🔗 https://www.barrons.com/news/meta-asks-us-judge-to-toss-blockbuster-antitrust-case-e98ed3e5 #...Read more
Or you never had one? Just updated my Instagram and didn’t recognize it after opening. It felt like I had a cheap rip-off of TikTok open. Is FB the Microsoft of social networking? For Microsoft it was working, cause it would copy competitors’ features and offer them for free or as a bundle for le...Read more
Does Facebook continue to be preferred social-network for everyone as it used to be 6 years back? To me it seems that the gen-z is more attracted towards instagram and snap compared to facebook. If that is true, what is Facebook target customer base and where do you think it will plan to capitalise ...Read more
They had literally everything going for them including user trust, their data, their photos, their location, their voice - all they needed to do is to wrap it in a nice way to create social profiles. They also had the best engineering talent to make it happen. Sowing the right social networking see...Read more
Haven't been so interested in a networking app since Instagram and that was years ago. Think blind is heading for greatness? Also what do y'all think the exit strategy is for blind?
Seriously now that nobody in US uses Facebook anymore and Twitter is the defacto social network to share thoughts 1:n (thoughts, not booty as with IG) - why doesn’t zucc strengthen with monopoly with a Twitter aq?
A friend of mine told me that his ex, a Facebook employee, hacked into his Instagram account and deleted DM’s from people they deemed a threat. Yep, it’s what you think. Just wondering… Is this possible or could the story be fabricated? Facebook Employee Alleged Role: Network Engineer
What do people thing of LinkedIn turning to FB/Insta? It annoys me now to open LinkedIn and scroll through since people are all posting personal updates. It no more servers the purpose of professional network. Thoughts ?