At Meta for 2 years and can say that Meta waste a lot of money. It doesn't feel like they spend money responsibly. Some of the things like - Phone / Laptop renewal every 2 years vs standard 3 years. Data Center hardware renewal every 3 years (AWS is 5 and Azure is 6 years). - Business class international trip (for all levels). - All these internal summits and conferences in locations like London or NY. My entire team decided to go to London from US just for a 2 day hackathon (10K expense per head). - Keeping the office contract staff pre-covid level, even though every other company has reduced the staff. - Construction of new offices still going on. - Food benefits are nice. But for every 1 FTE, there are 2 non-FTE also eat for free. - Metaverse (above all). - Swags - there is a limit to the number of hoodies/T-shirts I can wear or Mugs/backpacks I need. I also don't like to wear office branded clothes outside of office. I am not complaining about benefits, but I tried to list things that just feels like pure waste of money. TC - 500K
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Weird flex.
goated alley oop
Humble brag at its nadir
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Weird flex but ok
How is Qualcomm these days? Went through some troubled times with layoffs in the 2016-2018 time frame. Has morale recovered? How’s the TC for staff and above?
TC is 🥜 that's the biggest disadvantage. However you can learn a lot because Qualcomm is jumping into all kinds of new tech these days - AI stack, AR, VR, ADAS, wearables etc. Decent morale but there's a need of a competitive TC otherwise people will keep jumping ship
Go to Amazon. That’s a better fit for you
Even msft will do
+1 goto msft, have received only 1 tshirt in my 3 years here
You should join Amazon. Period.
The King of frugality
@forgotpwd I think Oracle is the king of Frugality. We pay for our own official travels, no reimbursements.
That sounds great
Yoe?
There are people that would set on fire $10,000 if it meant they could take $5. It’s not your money
Aren’t these just businesses expenses for Meta anyway? Might as well just spread the money out to benefit employees through these expenses. Save tons on taxes etc
yep. It’s either employees or the taxman.
This dude doesn’t understand that these perks are differentiators that attract people to Meta. If these benefits weren’t there, would Meta be as popular to work at? Maybe you’d like somewhere where they are super cheap on you. Maybe you’ll be happier because your company would be “frugal”?
How does Data center hardware, new office construction etc a perk. I don’t get any benefits out of it or increases my Morale.
Not every expense is directly only for employees. It’s indirect benefit. If updating data center and building new buildings is increasing business (hopefully) wouldn’t you (if you continue to work at Meta) benefit from increase in TC
You could teach them #frugality.
Meta should steal AMZN’s LPs, like they do with SNAP products
Easy. Hire more Amazonians