Meta

Developer productivity is given great importance. There's a dedicated org for ensuring developers are highly productive, ironing out latency issues in VS Code, building new extensions for flagging syntactical issues, lint issues, exceptions, and latency/performance issues, all within VS Code. All this means time to write code is dramatically reduced; there's no worry about spinning up new instances, provisioning distributed machines, or setting up development machines, etc. It's a great company in terms of perks, despite the broad macroeconomic downturn. We have a £2500 wellness benefit and a £2600 travel benefit, pension match up to 6% (employee) with a 9% employer contribution with Fidelity, and great insurance (Level 4 with Cigna for dentist and WPA for health).

Low value of RSU negatively affects total compensation [stock component]. The market doesn't believe in the potential of the metaverse.

Better communication within the company and outside on the development in AR/VR. Strategic initiatives to improve the underlying foundational technology for superior graphics on VR.