I have worked in many companies. Startups from 10 member team to big companies of 80k ppl. I have changed 8+ companies in my career. Never ever I have seen such a bad culture as Facebook. Everyone is working for that PSC. The team has no camaraderie. It’s totally artificial. No one wants to speak much on anything beyond work as they fear if they speak something, management might take it as negative and screw their PSC on People. So everyone is busy doing what is asked. For a short term goal. And managers are just coasting in this company. Never have People Manager for a technical team. That’s the worst thing you can do. These managers have no technical responsibility. No accountability on the project. It’s all on ICs. But they want to come in the end and decide what your rating would be. Something they don’t like, they screw your rating. It’s a apartheid kind of system. Screw the workers for not living upto “our expectations”. Edit: For those commenting on salary and benefits- I agree. FB does have one of the best benefits and good salary. My post is not about that. In the end it’s upto an individual what they want. But the culture is very bad due to the Performance Summary Cycle. That is why there’s isn’t any innovation happening. TC: 360K. E5
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Honestly OP is so overblown. FB has sent me to conferences in India and trips to see teammates in NYC, Seattle, and Zurich. I like my teammates on my previous team so much that we still VC with eachother. I VC’d with my previous manager last week to catch up. There’s so much more to FB that people miss out on.
I’m confused. You meant never have a non-tech manager to manage a tech team?
Isn't that obvious? Why would anyone in their right mind want to hire a non tech manager for a tech team?
That should seldom happen at Facebook. It is an Amazon thing. I do see a few non tech people hired as manager of engineers at Facebook in the recent months. Not sure why Facebook caught that habit
In your experience, which company or type of company had the best culture, and why?
If name calling/labeling is the only response you are capable of, then OP has proven his/her point.
Bad feedback, care to mention how should it improve?
Agreed 💯 What the public can see about Facebook is a mirror reflection of the mess this company is in. Yearly scandals, igniting political unrests, employee suicide(s), and toxic management. Both my manager and skip completely blockades any upward feedback because they're fear-driven by PSC and have retaliated on ICs that reflected negative feedback This is my backstory and taste of the toxic culture (I'm currently in treatment to attempt repairing the psychological damages): https://us.teamblind.com/s/b6iiOZQe FB fosters managers over leadership and PSC incentives short-term "improvements" rather than innovation
Went through that post you linked, was a tough read. Are you still at FB ?
@desi Hi desi, thanks for asking Unfortunately, I'm still at FB. Everyday, I try to convince myself that I'm suffering through the abuse for the sake of a better future. My sanity is still manageable as of now, but I have nightmares and sometimes scared that I'll meet the same fate as the colleague that jumped back in Sep. 2019.....
TC?
Move fast break democracy
FB is a POS company
Suck it up bruh for that TC . What - did you expect rainbows and fairies?
PSC?
Pimp Squad Clique
Performance Something Cycle (aka their version of connect / perf)