MSFT vs FB work life balance? Heard bad things about FB wlb at least Seattle office and the culture of self promotion. Considering an offer but money is not everything for me
Depends on the team, but generally, FB moves much faster and you have better WLB at MSFT.
Microsoft is the country club. Only better places to slack off are companies like Cisco etc. do not go to Facebook if WLB if your top priority, you’ll get destroyed.
Repeating “country club” doesn’t offer any insight. I’ve heard this from 100 Amazonians. I’ve worked at both places, there are good places to slack off in Amazon as well, look at fin tech, people tech, parts of Alexa. Same way there are fast moving, and well balanced and well managed teams in Microsoft. Which is rare in Amazon by the way. Also fast moving != death march.
You can slack off in parts of Alexa? I heard the WLB there was terrible.
Most of the teams at FB have terrible wlb
Fb has bad WLB. Seattle is slightly better than MPK as in it is more family oriented, but most teams does 50 hours on avg. I have been on 3 Teams in Seattle and have done 50 hours on avg. Some Infra teams are easily 60-65 hours.
Is it even legal to set such expectations as a requirement ?
@facebook, can I PM you for info? Starting fb in Seattle soon.
It's the ai camera team. Any insights?
It depends on your org and team but in general MSFT is way better. Self promotion culture is about the same in both companies but you'll tend to see it a lot more at FB. Source: Worked at both places
Self promotion? What’s that?
Running ads for yourself and get noticed.