Facebook work-life balance
For anyone who has worked at Facebook (and potentially other places), what's the work/life balance? Are there frequent weekend hackathons that you should participate in for example? Is it hard to say that you are going on vacation for a few days? Is this all very team dependent or is there a predominant culture?
I work about 35 hours a week and it's super chill. Others work a lot more and are stressed at times. Really depends on the team you choose. It's pretty easy to discern which teams will have good work life balance.
How do you figure out the teams with good work life balance?
Boot camp is a good opportunity for it
Avoid orgs full of new grad nerds who don't have social life
Good advice!
There is no work life valence. Only work work balance
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Fb is much intenser than G. Varies among the team.
You have to deliver impact, consistently. How you go about that is very flexible. But your flexibility will end with you out on your butt if you don't deliver. The appearance of busyness is irrelevant so long as you deliver to the business. This is awesome and totally different. If your kid's concert/field trip, etc is during work hours and your spouse posts pictures on FB, your colleagues won't thank you for working, they'll think you're an idiot and should have been there instead. The integration of real life and work life was what I was worried about at first, but it's the best thing ever.
There's a transient line between work and life and it's the weirdest thing ever. I'm a workaholic but I love my work and don't have a life outside of work except maybe once every couple of weeks when I disconnect and take pto You can live whatever balance you want but in general to succeed will require sacrificing work life balance to some degree
work life balance is pretty poor. the up side is that you get a lot more responsibilities right away and some pretty cool work experiences. lots of people burning out though.
Depends a lot on the team you go, but usually you can find a place with a good balance. That been said, you won't have much opportunities to slack. I remember that in MSFT I could spend weeks without doing anything with little consequences, at FB I can't do it even for a few days. Hackathons are optional and not on weekends, the only weekend work is oncall rotations.
Why can't you? Is it the open office thing?
Pressure to do more, competitiveness, the whole review process is designed to reward high performers, under performing people get kicked out pretty quickly.