How to succeed at Meta
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How to succeed at Meta
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#2Sounds pretty dystopian to me.
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#3Blind is such a toxic place... I always come off shocked at how awful people are on there. Only focused on "TC", and nothing else.
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#4thats every big company.
Eventually there will be someone who makes a spreadsheet, sorts by a column, and makes a decision based on what they see. Or, perhaps they will send it to a management consultant who has been in the workforce for all of 6 months to make a powerpoint about the columns.
Make sure you have a good rank on as many columns as possible.
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#5The sad part is it may very well be true, at least I don't know. The issue is, if you put in effort to make valuable contributions, and your manager doesn't care at all about them, and harp on the fact that your metrics aren't met so you'll get 0 RSU, 1% Bonus, and 2% hike, well then things like this will happen. Which is not wrong, but is eternally sad.
The smart people which solved problems and made Meta/Amazon/MS/Apple such giants, that kind of generation might never reach these companies due to these things.
I maybe wrong, but who knows.
Blind = TC or GTFO :D Kids these days.
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#6thats every big company. Eventually there will be someone who makes a spreadsheet, sorts by a column, and makes a decision based on what they see. Or, perhaps they will send it to a management consultant who has been in the workforce for all of 6 months to make a powerpoint about the columns. Make sure you have a good rank on as many columns as possible.
In my experience, Apple was not like this. I was on a user-facing team, and we hardly looked at metrics related to our product's usage. In some cases we didn't even have meaningful metrics to look at.
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#7The sad part is it may very well be true, at least I don't know. The issue is, if you put in effort to make valuable contributions, and your manager doesn't care at all about them, and harp on the fact that your metrics aren't met so you'll get 0 RSU, 1% Bonus, and 2% hike, well then things like this will happen. Which is not wrong, but is eternally sad. The smart people which solved problems and made Meta/Amazon/MS/…
Can't speak about Meta, but my team at AWS does incentivize more complex longer-term projects. Improving metrics and getting short-term wins is pretty good if you want to get the L4 (entry) to L5 promotion, but you will most likely not make senior SDE without having some more complex projects that shows you know how to collaborate with other teams and juggle requirements.
That person would make L5 at AWS easily, but L6 will be harder without a somewhat lenient manager/reviewer.
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#8Blind is such a toxic place... I always come off shocked at how awful people are on there. Only focused on "TC", and nothing else.
Blind self selects for people who want to brag about how much they're paid and people who think they're underpaid who want to validate those assumptions. It leads to a toxic community.
There's so much more to work than compensation and this post proves it. Being on a good team is 100x more important than what you're paid. Good teams elevate engineers and give you a better career path in your future. I make SL level compensation and non-SL level companies because my value is high, not because my employer can overpay for mediocrity.
There's too many engineers who think the secret to success is to get hired at the right company and then they just sail on to a dream career. I've worked with enough people from those big companies who left, some after long careers, to know that it's simply not true.
A lot of people see the impactful work that happens at these big companies and assume that's the impact they'll make as well. What they don't get is those big companies literally poach PhDs or buy smaller companies to get that kind of talent.
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#9Blind is such a toxic place... I always come off shocked at how awful people are on there. Only focused on "TC", and nothing else.
Well, it's not like people join Meta to "make the world a better place" lol.
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#10Blind is such a toxic place... I always come off shocked at how awful people are on there. Only focused on "TC", and nothing else.
Blind self selects for people who want to brag about how much they're paid and people who think they're underpaid who want to validate those assumptions. It leads to a toxic community. There's so much more to work than compensation and this post proves it. Being on a good team is 100x more important than what you're paid. Good teams elevate engineers and give you a better career path in your future. I make SL level c…
For many devs, especially non SV people (or even non US people), a TC of 250k+ is more than life changing. It's "I never could have ever gotten this, and not only is my life set, the people around me are too".
Needless to say, if I was offered these compensations (or higher), I'll gladly take even 10 years of incompetence around me to then be able to do fuck all for the rest of my life (or, well, things I actually enjoy doing, not for a megacorporation). Being an elevated engineer doesn't pay the bills.