Meta

• Good benefits.
• Free food.

• Forced RTO even though there's not enough desks or meeting rooms. There is no flexibility, and days in the office are tracked.
• Arbitrary, internally imposed deadlines create fake pressure to deliver substandard work output.
• There is an AI push from the top, including quotas for AI-generated code. There is a hard shift to an unproven AI-native culture, and the internal forum is full of AI-generated posts.
• Everything is bespoke, including non-standard programming languages, databases, and source control.
• Leadership is poor and ineffective.
• Pay is not that good anymore, and recruiting will down-level you and lowball you, which is the start of the abusive relationship this company has with its employees now.
• The performance culture is bad. People are constantly looking for scope and impact to put on airs so they don't get piped.
• Frequent layoffs are the norm now.
• There is extensive workplace surveillance and monitoring. Management has many dashboards they can use to look at all aspects of your work, and it always feels like you're being watched.
• Products are broadly antisocial or business failures. It doesn't feel like there's a vision for what this company should be producing in the near future.

Stop abusing your employees and build a product that actually excites users.