With the recent layoffs at Google, Amazon, etc and hiring freeze at other companies like Salesforce, are there chances that Meta also goes into a hiring freeze? I'm currently in team matching phase, so should I rush to choose the first team available or wait for the right team according to my preferences? Waiting for the right team might take another month. Team matching has been really slow for the past month or so. current tc : 370k yoe : 5
In the same boat. It's a totally uncertain situation. Which location are you trying?
MPK
I got multiple options for MPK and thought many HCs were there. I am looking for Seattle with no more options left.
Same boat
Any update ?
Depends how many teams you have interested in you. My recruiter said to expect 5-7 teams. I at first got 2. Both passed on me. So I was panicking lol. Then the next week I got another team - you bet your ass I sold myself and accepted right away. Sell hard and treat every sell meeting like an interview. If you have 2-3 teams interested be picky. Else don’t - you can switch teams after a year
How does team matching work with Meta? After passing onsites do you have a convo with each team interested in you or what? How do they even get teams to be interested in you? Share your resume/interview results with team’s hiring?
This ^^ did the exact same thing. Everyone just passed on me. Roles were selling like hot cakes. I spoke to around 10 managers and only one accepted my case and I had to sell myself so hard for the one I'm joining. It was just like an other interview tbh.
Meta’s still interviewing, if they weren’t gonna match people who already passed the interview they wouldn’t be wasting engineer hours on interviewing new candidates who also wouldn’t get matched. Just give it time and let managers finish with perf.
I am confused how anyone can argue that logic after we already saw that logic is completely bad when they did layoffs. They had interviews scheduled after the layoffs with no one in charge of doing the logistics and no intention of hiring
Oh, I thought they had a hiring freeze for a while before layoffs
Yes frozen already . I have seen in my org. They are either slow deliberately or freezing.
Which org is this?
I can't speak to most swe positions but if it's internal tooling, automation, or AI you can wait without too much worry. Other soft areas like app, policy I'd take it now.
Is it because internal tooling, automation and AI is less preferred? Or because the headcount demand from those teams is always high?
Also what is indicates by soft? App policy do they have low headcount?
I would pick quickly, unless you really don’t want to be on the team. Or you’re okay waiting for the right team, even if it takes a while or doesn’t happen. Depends on your risk appetite.
Aren't you afraid of being laid off immediately after joining Meta?
Meta will not go through hiring freeze, relax. They want to get to 80k employees quickly before doing the next round of layoffs, so you are in for a treat
😂😂😂 welp that's just because we need to hire bottom performers for the pip factory. In this rating cycle alot of under performers are protected because management is allowing teams to could those laid off in the underperformer category but I think next year their going to turn the screws harder. We already have rating distribution targets which are mandatory so next year if you're the bottom performers in terms of impact you're probably gonna get pipped. Don't let anyone tell you MM is still a decent rating it's not. They laid off all the MM in the Nov/Apr layoffs.
Literally nobody says meets most is a decent rating. Factually untrue about all MMs being laid off. Lower performers were just low hanging fruit for most orgs.
In the same boat. Worried, but who knows.
Yeah I get that nobody would know the exact answer but any pointers from people at Meta would be helpful imo.
Ya I agreed. I'm all in for hearing more as well.