Meta reviews

- The product is not technology - its the users. And the "users of the product" are advertisers. - Improving product quality is extremely low pri for an engineer - There is -ve EV if one wants to make a good product - but there is high EV for doing cheap hacks to force feed a product to users and show growth.

- If you land in the wrong team or are a victim of poor management, HR will not do anything about it, even if you have evidence. Firstly, they are severely understaffed (one HRBP per 200 managers?). - The feedback cycles are too political. This is one of the worst things about Facebook. It has 'imported' bad habits and bad people from other companies who brought their corporate baggage with them. It didn't used to be like this. - People work on projects based on their six-month feedback review, not what's good for a team or the company. The lack of accountability from upper management makes this much worse. People get promoted for 'inventing' things that get abandoned after a month. - If you are good at public relations but do nothing, you can get very far at Facebook. It means you have 'visibility'. It's poisonous. - It has become so cynical that the latest 'trick' to get someone promoted to director is for them to organise a 'global' gathering. In other words, bring a bunch of people to Menlo Park, say it's for team building and give it a funky name or a motto... and boom! They become a Very Senior Person. - Zero work/life balance. You must be available 24/7.