Meta

Four to five years ago, Facebook used to be a great company. Some highlights were large autonomy, lack of bureaucracy, an agile, impact-driven culture, an environment facilitating open and honest dialogue, and sweet compensation.

Now, none of this is true. I genuinely struggle to point out one single highlight. I guess if you like VR/AR, this is a decent place for you.

At this point, Meta is a messy, dysfunctional company, full of politics and internal squabbles. There is not a lot of place under the sun, and people are fighting for their survival with anger and bitterness.

FB always tried to squeeze engineers dry, so burnout was very common, but it used to reward people with very fast career progression and great compensation. It was a fair tradeoff. Now you get squeezed even more and barely get anything in return.

Meta's execs are mostly old guards – people who were hired 15 years ago or more. Many of them are personal friends of Zuck's who were with him from the beginning of FB. The company was a lot smaller, objectives were different. Some of those people are quite decent, some are even good, but most are very average. They are not particularly bright and have not acquired any skills that are useful for the company in a current situation. So my advice for them is to resign.