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I have a friend at Meta. He said he hates every moment of working there but when the sweet RSUs drop every month it makes it all worth it.
Yuck… At least you know how much he is willing to sell his happiness for?
This Hacker News thread isn't useful at all. It's the same people that comment on every thread stating their opinions overconfidently. It's the same perpetually negative Wired article. These things would be the same no matter what is really going on, and so I can't use it to learn anything.
This is all an interesting read from where I sit -- I worked for a global multi-national telecom that spun off from the 1996 deregulated local carrier, was bought up by a dot-com bust company, promptly went bankrupt and was sold off various times. So ... I understand bad morale and 10% layoffs. We went from 25,000 employees (1998-1999) at peek to under 3,000 (2004ish?). I did 17 years of (at least) 10% cuts company-w…
I’ve turned down lots of interviews there because I find working there to be morally bankrupt.
Imagine the cognitive dissonance at play there, doing some DS work, realizing your product actively makes people depressed...all while driving back to your 5M+ home in a Tesla listening to podcasts about sunning your ballsack
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>I probably made half of what I could have made, anywhere else... Peace of mind over peace of wallet for me, every time.
Peace of mind largely depends on peace of wallet for a lot of people. Imagine a life without a care for accommodation or travel. Suddenly you can go wherever you want whenever you want and work on whatever you want without a care.
> and work on whatever you want without a care
Many companies that pay you lots of money, do so, on the condition that you work on whatever they want you to work on. They also get first dibs on the benefits from that work, usually leaving you with fairly dilute equity, or controlled bonuses, if you're lucky.
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Yes. But there are things you say as a young person that are revealing of core personality traits. Most people would just not say that.
Yeah, I'm inclined to think people can grow. There's a reason juveniles convicted of crimes, even serious crimes, should be given a second chance and are given a second chance in most civilized places. College is where things start to firm up for most people, though. I don't think I've ever known anyone who was a terrible person in college who turned out good.
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Interesting. Could you elaborate on any specifics for this claim?
996 culture, and Zuck has a particular fondness for China, Chinese people due to his wife.
cheap programmers, long 996 hours, and access to the biggest market in the world.
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in both cases you're making a deal to enrich "the devil" to enrich yourself could your business simply make less money? could you find other ways to achieve your business goals? could you put in more work for lesser results? these are the same choices you're asking others to make about their employment
I understand what you're saying, but no, I don't agree. These companies have positioned themselves so that it is often unavoidable to do business with them. If you have a visual arts business you are more-or-less required to have an Instagram account, and maybe even advertise on it. It's where your customers and business partners are and if you want to participate in that space, you're handicapping yourself so severe…
the effectiveness of online ad targeting enables a lot more businesses to be profitable, this is indisputable
it is still a choice to say "I need to run a visual art business that makes $X" as much as it is to say "I need to be a software engineer that makes $Y"
giving Meta money is the easiest option, of course
if you feel you can't achieve your goals without giving Meta money, that's fine, but maybe don't judge those who feel they can't achieve their goals without working for Meta
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Yeah, I'm inclined to think people can grow. There's a reason juveniles convicted of crimes, even serious crimes, should be given a second chance and are given a second chance in most civilized places. College is where things start to firm up for most people, though. I don't think I've ever known anyone who was a terrible person in college who turned out good.
True, but none of the action of Meta under his direction points to having changed in any way. If anything, he doubled down.
The thing he said in college was shitty, and indicative of a spoiled, entitled, child of wealth and privilege, but saying it was basically harmless. Worse things might be said at the corner sports bar on any given night in any city in the country.
What he's done since has caused real harm.
I am wondering if Zuckerberg somehow stumbled upon the old Decimation thing on Wikipedia one late evening and decided it was a good idea to try. I don't really understand the rationale otherwise, hiring is hard, and they are not forced to reduce cost now. This seems like a colossal mistake. Not the first of course.
The industry standardized on this as "Stack ranking" like two decades ago.