How to succeed at Meta
Joined about 5 months ago as E5 and I think I’ve cracked the meta culture. Most recent perf checkin was Exceeds Expectations + Here are the points: - Completely ignore all long term projects, they are worthless - Focus ONLY on short term impact (4-6 weeks is best, can be 8 weeks sometimes) - Write at least 2-3 workplace (our internal message board) posts per week showcasing your work, even if you have to copy paste most of the time and change one line - Don’t waste your time writing more than a few tests if at all, and if you can skate by just showing screenshots of “works for me”, even better than unit tests - If it breaks, claim extra points for fixing it and BE work (better engineering, it’s one of the perf axis) - Your work only needs to move metrics, ignore everything else, ignore user impact, ignore if it’s right for the user, ignore if it makes or loses money. Focus only on some metric moving up, doesn’t matter which metric - Write small diffs (pull requests) (this one is actually good advice) - Always believe your work is super impactful and shovel that in every direction, especially your manager and senior engineers. Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not Use those tips as your bible if you are joining or already at Meta. This is the only way to succeed here. #tech #meta #success #layoff #performance #e5 #Facebook #tips
Would you apply this recipe at a startup you founded?
Why did you repost this?
No wonder the stock price is in the gutter
The workplace social media sounds so stupid tbh
what are they gonna do next, have meetings in the metaverse?
What an absolute toxic place to work at. You should stick to Meta and not bring your toxicity elsewhere.
Bro. He's helping people handle the toxicity. Good engineers get canned at meta. He's helping them survive.
Hate to break it to you, but you really ought to look at the internal code that runs Azure. I don't know if the incentives are as perverse as OP's exploitation of Meta's goofy system, but it is YOLO no test shenanigans for an uncomfortable portion of it :/
This could have been about Stripe.
A lot of ex-Meta at Stripe. They enforce their terrible engineering culture if you get enough in one place.
I’ve only been here 18 months but from my perspective the HC growth from 19-21 was imbued whatever Stripe culture was into a hybrid of Meta, Amazon & Microsoft
Mostly good advice except writing tests. You should be doing test first development and 100% test coverage so that you can move fast. Writing tests isn't really about preventing bugs. It's about giving you focus so that you can move faster.
You’re making amazon look good
MMGA. And don’t get laid off
TC after stock drop or GTFO
Thank you meta master !!
No problemo!