Meta: infighting worsened after flattening and forced quotas

2025-02-12T00:00:00+00:00

Kind teams and generous onboarding early on, then flattening, scope grabs and forced quotas bred infighting; the reviewer is leaving for mental health despite the pay.

MetaBackend EngineerPosted 1 year agoBy Anonymous

About the reviewer

Status: Current employee, planning to leave
Time at the company: 5–10 years
Role: Backend Engineer
Job type: Full-time
Track: Individual contributor
Location: SF Bay Area
Degree: PhD
Experience before joining: 5–10 years

What they reported

Confident in the business: Not sure
Clear path to grow: No
Hours a week: 40–50 hours
Last stock refresher: $100k–250k
Who makes the decisions: Others
How colleagues work: Hardworking, late nights when needed
Office politics: Constant, hard to get work done
Left the org in the last 6 months: Nobody
Food: Free, and fine

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Meta: infighting worsened after flattening and forced quotas

MetaBackend EngineerPosted 1 year agoBy Anonymous

About the reviewer

Status: Current employee, planning to leave
Time at the company: 5–10 years
Role: Backend Engineer
Job type: Full-time
Track: Individual contributor
Location: SF Bay Area
Degree: PhD
Experience before joining: 5–10 years

What they reported

Confident in the business: Not sure
Clear path to grow: No
Hours a week: 40–50 hours
Last stock refresher: $100k–250k
Who makes the decisions: Others
How colleagues work: Hardworking, late nights when needed
Office politics: Constant, hard to get work done
Left the org in the last 6 months: Nobody
Food: Free, and fine

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