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One thing we use it for is for forking tools internally because of politics.

Oh no, they totally do, everyone makes fun of them. It's bizarre because there's this culture of really brazen leadership, but everyone is constantly criticizing them and laugh emo…

look, he's bad, don't work for him, just burn this into your memory, it's not that complicated

> I've worked in Big Tech and I know for sure the team you're on makes a big difference, regardless of the CEO. Yeah this is true, but also if the company wants to make everyone su…

If you like him so much, you should go work for him. Then call us back

> And of course this is not unique to Zuck/Meta. We don't hear much from people working for Musk either. Because they're being forced to works nights and weekends and don't have ti…

> They're very very happy to spill beans and talk about the current environment on Blind which is a lot less hostile. This is funny, Blind is even more negative on the general comp…

This is really common at his company btw, this shit trickles down from leadership. For example, a director wrote a post internally solely with AI, didn't review it at all, directly…

From the inside, there's a crazy amount of attrition right now. The way they handled this layoff freaked a bunch of people out. They didn't acknowledge it for one month and every w…

> because they need to make as many employees quit as quickly as possible if they hope to avoid bankruptcy right now they're freaking out over attrition and making a bunch of posts…

> median employee tenure it's less than two years, probably well below average. maybe it was more previously

> or some other non FAANG big tech corp. The acronym is outdated. I don't really see a difference between FAANG or Nvidia/Stripe/Uber/etc in terms of brand recognition. And also it…

> was permitted to poach high-performing subject matter experts from key engineering orgs and reassigned them to data labeling I think the main proponent was Bosworth, not Wang

The total comp is a lie because the average tenure is Just one suggestion: don't stop interviewing and be very observant of whatever team you land in, be ready to jump ship if ther…

> or do you actually have to hunt for your own projects, like you might in some consulting firms? This is how the company works on a fundamental level. On healthy teams, having som…

Maybe if you joined 10 years ago lmao

The latter. I've seen so much unethical shit here, I'd love to give more detail but I'd probably dox myself

Here's how things play out: Zuck gets some idea, he's surrounded by a bunch of yes men who say "yes, this will definitely change the world", then it turns into this optics game of …