Meta

• Fun environment to work with some bright and talented individuals.

Too many layers of incompetent managers based in California, that have no understanding or willingness to learn about international management. As such, they do ridiculous things like putting an 8-hour time difference between key people in a team (Designer in California, Engineers in the UK) and expect the team to perform at or above locally based teams.

Too many people believe working until 10 p.m. regularly is acceptable.

Too many people in senior positions have no real-world experience. They are there through tenure and not talent.

Work is like a feature factory. There is little to no interest in R&D.

Hopeless product managers that don't use the product they work on, to the point they can't tell the difference between Instagram DMs, WhatsApp, or Messenger.

Bloated organizations with too many people wanting to provide input and opinion, resulting in nothing getting done. Worst organization I worked at for efficiency.

Immature people who care more about the quality of the food available than the meaningful work they should focus on.

With so many talented people who come from careers and backgrounds of international management, why would you solely rely on people in California who haven't worked with anyone outside their state, let alone other time zones or cultures? You could fire 50% of the company and be MORE effective than keeping bloated leadership structures. Go back to your roots. Let people be empowered to think big and drive forward meaningful work rather than spending 30 hours a week in useless meetings just to make some Director feel happy that they see a feature enabled in Instagram, Messenger, or WhatsApp.