SDE here, came across a few comments in blind saying that one has to "trade their soul" if they decide to grow their career at #facebook I wonder where it is coming from and what are the dark sides of fb. Specifically interested in what it looks like in their Seattle office, but hearing opinions from people working in other locations would be great to hear too.
Political, incremental culture turned me into zombie
1) Some people are jealous of our high TC (top of market) and they rationalize not working here with not wanting to work here because we’re evil. 2) Anti-tech media has been trying for years to paint “Big Tech” companies as evil, especially Facebook. The narrative has become so incessant that some who work here believe it themselves. 3) Some employees highly disagree with Zuck’s stance on allowing some of Trump’s posts to stay up rather than taking them down. A subset of them think that internal Republican operatives are pushing some kind of conservative agenda. Similarly, they justify their continued employment with selling their soul.
Interesting, thank you. Indeed reading too much news will rot one's mind.
No problem. We aren’t a perfect company but no one is. Personally, I’ve been here a long time and the company culture is great. That’s why I’ve stayed for so long. I’ve accepted we have our haters. When you’re at the top, it’s natural for this to happen. I suggest forming your own opinions. Meet people or ask friends who actually work here what it’s like. Blind is not the greatest place for info. :)
It's great for most but as with any company several folks self impose crazy deadlines or goals and try to work a hundred hours a week to achieve it. Most of them learn that you are more productive at 35 hours a week but sometimes it takes new or super ambitious folks a while to get there. Working too much leads to burn out. That's my guess anyway!
Not your soul, just your life. One often repeated saying is in Facebook you do meetings all day and then coding all night. A bit exaggerated but you get the idea. Also note this only applies to SWE since managers and PM just have to do the meeting part and are free after hours. So in general you will find conflicting opinion from SWE vs non SWE
I dont think that's true - there are people chilling and with high stress in most roles. It's more team dependent. FWIW- according to the internal pulse surveys, work life balance for PMs and "work you enjoy" scores are much lower than swe. You'd be surprised but there is work beyond meetings for non-swe roles
Even managers and PMs have to prepare docs, presentations etc outside meetings, but engineers have to do all that and coding. Plus oncall, so the workload of engineers is at least 50 percent more. Engineers are responsible for building communication collaboration everything.
It’s like you are in highschool and you are attractive, athletic, and the Valedictorian. Jelly losers all be starting rumors you made a pact with the devil to soothe their worthless egos as they struggle for the scraps of hoes you leave behind.
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Liar? Sure but Zuck got balls man! You can’t deny that.
I didn't see Jeff standing up to China in the hearing