Meta

Money is good, if you consider stock, which can be volatile.

Meta's tech stack is a total mess and totally homegrown. The skills you pick up here are unusable outside.

Meta also has a bottoms-up culture, which means every engineer is doing their own thing, with teams frequently working against each other.

As an engineer, EM, or any role really, you are constantly hunting for meaningless impact. You make up things, you achieve them, and you stab each other for PSC. As an XFN, you are again squeezed between roles and hunting for impact. It ends up creating a political atmosphere.

Managers and Directors are essentially paper pushers here.

Also, don't be wowed by their stock or comp. If they end up promising you too much, they'll just cut you off with layoffs or some other excuse. Get in there for one reason – money. But don't make too much, or you'll get axed.

Plan better, seriously. Remove some chaos and look deeper. A "bottoms up" culture is not your strength; it is your biggest problem.