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There are excellent benefits, great pay, and great potential for growth as an individual and as a company if social media interests you.

It is a stressful, insecure work environment with often competitive, cold, toxic coworkers, though there are also brilliant and compassionate people. It is highly political. I felt stunted in my engineering depth working here because you don't learn how to truly design good systems, as product engineers at least are often too busy doing all sorts of other work with cross-functional teams.

You have to make a real-time investment to make up for that in your free time, staying up to date on external technologies and best practices.

Invest in more long-term bets, and give people adequate peace and time to genuinely want to mentor, lead things, and do their jobs well, rather than pretending for a constant performance evaluation.