Hey FB see folks,
Evaluating an E5 offer from FB. But worried about WLB or in general work stress/hours. Based on what I have read on blind most SWE work ~50 hours/week and there is always a stress to get a Meets rating to prevent a PIP.
Can folks from FB please share the following data points:
1. Team/org + level/tenure
2. Average work hours per week.
3. How stressful does it get? (1-10 scale)
4. Would you work elsewhere for the same pay but less hours/stress? (Yes/no)
Thanks y'all!
Offered TC:480K for year 1. 400K after.
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2. 40 hours on average
3. Stress - self-induced 10, induced by manager 0
4. Unsure. I've worked at places before FB where I worked only 20 hours a week but the politics stressed me out.
FB is definitely better work culture than Microsoft and Amazon. Microsoft is still largely an ancient company even though it's gone through this massive transformation. Amazon, despite all it's brilliant innovation still manages to be ancient in the way it does things internally.
With Google it depends on the team and your personal preferences. I think FB takes care of employees better than Google. Google is bigger and slower in general. But individual team variations are large enough where your experience could be better or worse at FB.
Uber and Netflix I'm have that much data.
Wow, this resonates with me. A lot of my time goes onto discussions, meetings which mostly involve contributing to the tasks which are not under my ownership.
As someone, who received a lot of help in the beginning when I joined the team, I feel obligated to do the same for others. But at the end of the day, it does eat up a significant portion of my time without much visibility.
2. < 30 on average for MA
3. Low (3), no critical on-call, no hard deadlines, some people depend on me to move forward otherwise would be 0.
4. Yes, but I don't think such place exists
2. 30 - 40 hours per week (wfh with 2 kids)
3. 0
4. No
The best thing about FB is that you can choose what you want to do. Nobody, even my manager, can force me to work on projects I don't like. I propose and lead my own project. Everything they care is impact, and not how many hours you spend.