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.
..then in case of a conflict of beliefs - can you justify a private utility company cutting someone's power? a private RE/Property Management firm denying someone a roof over their heads? CVS denying an individual their insulin? Serious question.
E4 offer at Meta. Current TC : 160k Location Menlo Park YOE: 5 Instagram Base : 185000 RSU : 425000 Bonus : 15% Base Sign on : 50000 DM if you have any questions
What is the average salary for an M1 at FB/Instagram? Are we looking at 200k/y base salary, 15-20% annual bonus, $100k RSU? Is there a way to get a signing bonus?
My best wishes go out to all those impacted. Curious to know of those who were laid off by Meta in the past 6-months, where are/were you based? #tech #layoffs #meta #facebook #instagram
Sharing this for my fellow designers as a data point - Los Angeles | Instagram Org Base: 160K RSU: 46,750 per year (Total grant 187K) Bonus: 15% Sign-On: 15K Total Comp (Year 1): $245,750 Current TC: 150K | YOE: 6
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-07/amazon-is-raising-base-salary-cap-to-350-000-from-160-000?utm_campaign=instagram-bio-link&utm_medium=social&sref=xuVirdpv&utm_source=instagram&utm_content=business
Just like Elon proved twitter had too many employees not doing anything, IG @ Meta is doing the same thing. They just shadow ban based off automated rules and have 0 customer service or ability to act on accounts. Buncha lazy folks coasting and not recovering accounts.
Passed onsites for E4 and have some team match meetings scheduled - I have a couple of questions about the process: 1. In terms of location my preferences were Bay Area first, followed by NYC. For pillars I put down IG first followed by Reality Labs, among some others, etc. So far my current reach-...Read more
I have 3 offers on the table and I am trying too see if I can get Instagram to come-up a bit as that role excites me the most and I am really keen to take that. YOE: 6+ Instagram 200k base, 600k - RSU, 100k sign-on Netflix - 450k cash + 5% Stock Options Amazon - 330k TC (extremely complex of...Read more
Offer from Instagram (IC role, non-technical role): $190k base $260k equity over 4 years $20k signing bonus 20% target bonus Leaving at Apple: $168k base $300k unvested $20k was last bonus Edited: YOE: 6 total (4 at Apple) Apple level is IC4
Given roughly similar base and equity (except Insta and Twitter which are about 2/3 equity as others), which would you pick. I'm currently in an ads/ML team and wouldn't mind staying in ads, but feel Insta/Twitter don't have much upside from current valuation.
What is a typical strong base, bonus and Stock grant for TPMs Vs PMs at Facebook/Instagram at IC5 and IC6 levels (for someone coming in externally with 8 years of PM experience)? How does this compare to what's offered by Google and LinkedIn?
It feels like insta is recommending pages that my ex might be looking and liking at. My ex and I don follow and have blocked each other, Does insta still know why my ex looks at and recommends me based on that?
X is the ONLY place that I know of that mostly has free speech and you can have discussions without worrying about posts getting deleted or getting banned. It’s not even close. Blind user based moderation is ass. You can not break any rules but say something that enough people don’t like and you ca...Read more
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
Do they check ur fb/ig based on email? Are they going to look at all my activity? Current tc 155k Arizona #meta
Hi , I am trying to find any api which can scrape instagram posts based on instagram handle . And is to better to use directly from mobile application or Should we scrape at backend and store results there ? Any recommendations? And if anyone knows limitation ? #Instagram scrape
Pinterest, Realself, Instagram...etc. What are other tech products where the user base is mostly female?
How is the Instagram TC in comparison to regular FB? Is there any difference? What should I expect as my TC for L5 at IG for a PM/TPM role in New York and what’s the average sign-on bonus? I believe the sign-on is primarily based on location, but don’t know for sure. #Facebook #Instagram #Tech
I have noticed a weird trend where I started seeing ads based on my conversations in real life (across FB and insta) .. I don’t think I ever signed up for it .. this happened to me multiple times and am not comfortable companies listening into my conversations .. Did anybody experience it ? I am p...Read more