Initial Promise, Efficiency Chaos
Initial Promise, Efficiency Chaos
They pay well and let me work fully remote. At first, I got to do some interesting technical work. There are a lot of really smart people there from special effects and games because Meta pays much better than those industries.
When the "year of efficiency" started, everything went to hell. All the teams were rearranged, good people were sacked, and most of the interesting technical work disappeared. Leadership is immature. The only tool they use is sacking people and reorganizing. The typical cycle is 2 months of planning, engineers work their butts off for a while, teams reorganize and throw out all the work they just did, and the cycle starts over.
Reward evolving your ecosystem rather than replacing it. Microsoft and Apple know how to do this. Learn from them and raise the quality bar for your software rather than rushing half-baked crap out the door.
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New York, New York, United StatesMarch 26, 2025The process had several steps, led by interesting and knowledgeable interviewers. I even had fun during the process. However, it overlapped with a wave of layoffs and a hiring freeze, so I didn't get the offer.
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Burlingame, California, United StatesJuly 1, 2025Interviewers often have poker faces; I think that’s in their instructions, so don’t get thrown off by that. LeetCode questions weren't super hard. The system design question went by very fast. Make sure you think and work fast because you'll really
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United StatesNovember 22, 2025The process was pretty smooth and a good experience. There were several rounds, but the whole process was pretty long, lasting about 4 months. I did not make it to the final round, though.
