Starting as an Enterprise Engineer @ Meta at the end of June. There's a lot of confusion about the role, so I'm hoping to get some real feedback from people who are/were in the role, or is close with someone in the role. How is the work-life balance as compared to regular SWE? For those of you about to ask: "WTF IS AN ENTERPRISE ENGINEER???", it's full-stack engineering for internal Meta products, as opposed to working on public facing products (FB, IG etc) TC: $340k (LCOL) YOE: 15 #engineering #swe #enterpriseengineer #wlb
WLB is better because of the nature of products you work on but you're treated like a second class citizen
By who? I keep hearing this, but I don't really understand what it means... do regular SWEs get to cut you on the lunch line? Or like I get a crappy parking space? I'm remote, so neither of those really apply... I get the feeling it's an inferiority complex thing I understand the comp differences, and I'm fine with it (still 2x what I'm making at IBM) So if you have any real examples, please enlighten me.
You'll work along side SWEs and it's like you're opinion is valued a little less. You're seen as someone who couldn't make it as a SWE. (not saying that's true) It's kind of like you have to prove yourself versus SWE that everyone just assumes is good. That being said, you can overcome it by proving yourself and WLB will be good.
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It’s a different job profile (benefits and positions within the company are based on the job profile), and SWEs have the most mobility. The bar is slightly lower than a SWE. SWE hiring has been completely stopped, but other roles like these are all still open. You can change your profile later if you want to join a team that doesn’t have open Enterprise Engineer positions but has SWE openings, but that is a different process.
Yes, I understand all that... I already accepted the position, so I know what it represents. I'm looking forward to the role, I'm really just interested in the work-life balance. I have 3 young kids (6/3/<1), so I'm not worried about the prestige and etc. I just want to work on (at least semi-)interesting projects, and have decent TC but not at the expense of selling my soul.
WLB is very dependent on your team and current tech debt. Meta has a very bottoms up culture, so you will be setting up your own projects (based on org and team priorities), and are expected to meet them. If your team is operations heavy, and they don’t have sufficient automations in place, you’d have a worse WLB until your team changes that, but that can change significantly during your tenure too (if operation automation is prioritized). There is no standard answer for this until you start working