Hate to burst the ego bubble, but hitting metrics is what you were hired to do.
How to succeed at Meta
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#22thats 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.
Might I point out that this may be too far in the ‘opposite direction’?
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ops post is a sarcastic take not a true guide (at least to my read)
Having worked there for a while, I'm not sure I agree with your take.
It’s clearly sarcastic. See the point where he says “this is actually good advice” indicating that the rest is not.
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#24Ah, the unassailable confidence required to work in one lower-level position at a company for 5 months and believe you know "How To Succeed" there.
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#25Blind is such a toxic place... I always come off shocked at how awful people are on there. Only focused on "TC", and nothing else.
If you're working for someone else's dream, what else is there? "TC" gives me and my family options to do other big things in the world. Yes, I want to take two big family vacations a year, live in a great neighborhood/ school district, and give my kids extra opportunities. Optimizing for "TC" makes sense.
This is nihilistic and short sighted way to see the world.
Being highly visible inside and outside my company has opened up more opportunity long term in terms of being offered consulting roles and opportunities in early stage startups then being a worker bee at Amazon for 2 years until you burnout. I know many people who have taken that route and it's one of many paths.
If you're a good engineer and can sell your work, contribute visibly to open source projects in your area of expertise and can present at conferences you'll have more opportunities than a worker bee at FAANG.
Someone out there is building the next big thing and if you're focusing just on getting the biggest paycheck you'll be watching from the outside.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Having worked there for a while, I'm not sure I agree with your take.
It’s clearly sarcastic. See the point where he says “this is actually good advice” indicating that the rest is not.
That was not my read from OP.
I took it to mean that they realize that most of this advice is not universally good/not applicable everywhere, but that single point is.
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#27Leave
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#28I wonder how many people at Meta are like this person.
This was basically how my manager laid it out for me on day 1.
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#29This person is getting a lot of snarky responses, but all of this is relatively true at Amazon also and it was true when I was at Intel 10 years ago. This is how large companies operate once they surpass the innovation phase, so it should be no surprise to anyone that's actually worked in a FAANG and doesn't pound down the kool-aid.
Interesting how there's comments on this person being concerned solely with "TC" as if the company itself is not solely concerned with profit. To top it off, most of these companies are on some shitlist for abusing their work-force or slave labor in developing countries. There's nothing wrong in working at a FAANG for the money and I'm surprised to see the current attitude in this thread around that. I thought we were past the employer loyalty era and more accepting of the harsh reality that everything is profit-driven these days.
BTW the person is not literally saying to do these things. They are using humor as a means to illustrate how ridiculous it is working under those conditions.
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#30Ah, the unassailable confidence required to work in one lower-level position at a company for 5 months and believe you know "How To Succeed" there.
That's not a very supportive response and doesn't match Hacker News values.