Working at Meta as a Software Engineer in 2024 | The Good, The Bad, The Ugly!

[@SumitKumar-ww7he]

Your channel is the only reason why I am dreaming of cracking Meta and soon one day I will do it.

[@jeremiahlena]

I have an interview at Meta in exactly three days. I hope I get it 🙏

[@carbogninalbertp]

Me too! Good luck buddy

[@jeremiahlena]

@@carbogninalbertpthanks man

[@jeremiahlena]

Good luck too

[@huru9178]

Same. Tuesday for me as well. GL!

[@abnernoel2910]

Hi do you work at meta?

[@RichardBaileyrichoncode]

Developer efficiency sounds like a really fun area to work. I’m amazed how well ai has become my primary source for documentation and refactoring. My day to day has elevated to focusing much more on architecture, performance, and refinement. While ai does much of my typing and generation of doc comments for apis.

[@NatureSeeker-37]

Thanks for sharing. It is utterly scary to think a fictional Hunger game is just around the corner, brutal competition

[@crackfaang]

Yea it's really bad. Especially in London where outside of working in finance, Meta is basically one of the only players in town where you can get a high tech salary so you are even more paranoid for your job. In the US, you could easily hop to another FAANG company and get the same or higher TC

[@siddardha14]

Wish you were part of all the FAANG companies 😂 so that you can post such videos on all of them every year

[@crackfaang]

😂

[@averageuser7883]

Started in ‘21 and huge shift even from then. No longer based in Mpk but seems like there’s two camps at odds with bringing back employee sentiment and maintaining cost reduction

[@dmytro.soltysiuk]

dude I fell off my chair laughing last time when you called out stock price boomin

[@miruomoo]

Meta final coming up, watching ur vids to prep 🙏

[@IngramSnake]

Did you get the job bro?

[@peppybocan]

with regards to "rehiring" people so the stock grants are higher -- don't kid yourself, if an institutional investor wants something they will get it. Those people up there are ruthless and they don't care about you a single bit.

[@msob1638]

A bit of an unrelated question, but do you ever conduct interviews? If so, have you ever had someone from an interview recognize you from your youtube channel? Regardless, great video as someone currently in middle of the Meta hiring process!

[@crackfaang]

I do conduct interviews and yes it's a bit of an anxiety of mine that someone might recognize me. Though I have tweaked some settings on my microphone to modify how my voice comes out on video and I speak much differently than I do in real life. With the stress of the interview day as well, I hope that candidates are less focused on the interviewer and more on passing the questions that they don't notice :)

[@BHARGAVMODI]

Good point on rate race

[@JensUwe-24]

You said around 10% of people have to be categorized as underperforming, but how many people are usually on a team?

[@crackfaang]

5-10 usually

[@JensUwe-24]

@@crackfaang oh shit that's tough

[@trueinviso1]

@@crackfaang So if you're on a team of 5, they require 1 person to get a bad performance review?

[@ThisIsntmyrealnameGoogle]

@@trueinviso1 Correct, managers are kind of required to give at least one person this rating.

[@8800010]

@@trueinviso1 Not necessarily, the calibration is at org level, so up to your manager to defend the team, vs other managers.

[@citrine7384]

Joining next summer as an intern 🫡 Love this series, it helped me make my decision and I'm super excited to join and grow as an engineer!

[@Monochrom4]

Are you still working out of the London offices? I'm curious if the more negative points you touched upon regarding worse work life balance is more towards a specific location or Meta in general! Just wrapped up my final loop with Meta London.

[@summit9502]

Hey I'm joining meta as a new grad new year! I wanted to know how common transferring between locations is for e3/e4 engineers. I got assigned to MPK, but I'm potentially interested in transferring to NYC after a year.

[@crackfaang]

You can transfer if a few conditions are met. Namely you need to have been with your current team for 1 year. After that it depends on headcount availability and business need. I think at the lower levels it's a little bit harder but not impossible. If you find a team that's willing to take you then the possibility is definitely there for you. You'll just have to deal with the HR process of getting the move approved and sorted out logistically

[@catmaxi2599]

​@@crackfaangYou can onky transfer after 1 year?

[@catmaxi2599]

Hey quico question you mentioned that theres a 15% quota is that just for MM rating? Does MM guarantee you a pip process? You said that rquates to around 1 to 2 people per team so are team sizes usually around 8 to 10? Are different orgs affected to different degree? Like surely they woukd pio as many from the money making side of adss right?

[@beyondlimits8159]

Hey what level are you and how long have you been at Meta? I joined as a new grad in july

[@Fam-m4i]

As a frontend developer with 5 years of experience. How do I prepare for Meta ? I can cover the frontend stuff. I need some advice on what to do in Leetcode. Like 3 months or 30 days Meta tagged problems.

[@talebsouli4767]

3 months easy-medium for E3/E4

[@Fam-m4i]

@ Thank you !

[@kochharify]

What can i do if my business ig was disabled after being hacked? There’s 0 support for such a big company it makes no sense!

[@LJLJ-m1j]

They definitely started hiring more people this month.I've got 2 recruiter pings in one week

[@ShubhamGoel2727]

Fast forward 2 months, and the ugly part of firing and hiring did happen. The board always gets its way

[@crackfaang]

C'est la vie I guess

[@carlesg0n]

sounds like an awful work environment tbh. teams where instead of collaboration you get competition. crazy lol.

[@crackfaang]

We do still actively collaborate but you know there is a sword dangling over everyone’s head and willing or not, subconsciously it affects you. I wish it wasn’t this way but it’s an unfortunate reality 🥲

[@wowbaggertheinfinitelyprol6262]

15th January 2025: Meta just announced that they are going to cull some poorly performing dead wood and fire around 5% of their staff - that's around 3,600 people. They will be re-hiring later in the year.

[@crackfaang]

Will do an update on this over the weekend once the dust has settled a little. Should be a fun video to make (not) 😁

[@numinalol]

@@crackfaangwelp your ugly prediction came true

[@wowbaggertheinfinitelyprol6262]

@@crackfaang I look forward to seeing it. How times have changed - you have to laugh now, at all those "typical working day at Facebook" vids from 3-5 years ago, with people clocking in at 10am for a latte followed by breakfast and a leisurely stroll around the roof garden.

[@medaliboulaamail6491]

Post more rants please

[@weiwang9622]

I don't get the ugly part. Worse case it just brings Meta to the same level as Amazon 😂