menloshark

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by menloshark 18d ago
I don't know what they were thinking with this one. Imagine this: you're in a little hellhole that tries to force you to work 7 days a week. It's already toxic and backstabbing is everywhere. You have to convince yourself tha
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by menloshark 18d ago
> A company like Meta could shed 60% and if done with precision and not suffer greatly. It's entirely self inflicted. A bunch of the headcount is thrown at exploratory initiatives which aren't necessary for keeping the lights o
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by menloshark 3mo ago
One thing we use it for is for forking tools internally because of politics.
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by menloshark 3mo ago
Oh no, they totally do, everyone makes fun of them. It's bizarre because there's this culture of really brazen leadership, but everyone is constantly criticizing them and laugh emoji reacting to their posts. But I think it's
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by menloshark 3mo ago
look, he's bad, don't work for him, just burn this into your memory, it's not that complicated
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by menloshark 3mo ago
> I've worked in Big Tech and I know for sure the team you're on makes a big difference, regardless of the CEO. Yeah this is true, but also if the company wants to make everyone suffer, they absolutely can. When companies have
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by menloshark 3mo ago
If you like him so much, you should go work for him. Then call us back
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by menloshark 3mo ago
> And of course this is not unique to Zuck/Meta. We don't hear much from people working for Musk either. Because they're being forced to works nights and weekends and don't have time
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by menloshark 3mo ago
> They're very very happy to spill beans and talk about the current environment on Blind which is a lot less hostile. This is funny, Blind is even more negative on the general company sentiment than this place. People are saying the
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by menloshark 3mo ago
This is really common at his company btw, this shit trickles down from leadership. For example, a director wrote a post internally solely with AI, didn't review it at all, directly plagiarized a bunch of stuff that other people wrote,
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by menloshark 3mo ago
From the inside, there's a crazy amount of attrition right now. The way they handled this layoff freaked a bunch of people out. They didn't acknowledge it for one month and every week we were wondering if it was going to happen. I
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by menloshark 3mo ago
> because they need to make as many employees quit as quickly as possible if they hope to avoid bankruptcy right now they're freaking out over attrition and making a bunch of posts internally about how they'll "do better&q
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by menloshark 3mo ago
> median employee tenure it's less than two years, probably well below average. maybe it was more previously
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by menloshark 3mo ago
> or some other non FAANG big tech corp. The acronym is outdated. I don't really see a difference between FAANG or Nvidia/Stripe/Uber/etc in terms of brand recognition. And also it depends on where you land org-wise.
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by menloshark 3mo ago
> was permitted to poach high-performing subject matter experts from key engineering orgs and reassigned them to data labeling I think the main proponent was Bosworth, not Wang
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by menloshark 4mo ago
The total comp is a lie because the average tenure is <2 years, statistically speaking you won't get the full 4yr initial grant by the time you leave. Just one suggestion: don't stop interviewing and be very observant of whatev
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by menloshark 4mo ago
> or do you actually have to hunt for your own projects, like you might in some consulting firms? This is how the company works on a fundamental level. On healthy teams, having something assigned to you (for levels under staff/6) is
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by menloshark 4mo ago
Maybe if you joined 10 years ago lmao
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by menloshark 4mo ago
The latter. I've seen so much unethical shit here, I'd love to give more detail but I'd probably dox myself
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by menloshark 4mo ago
Here's how things play out: Zuck gets some idea, he's surrounded by a bunch of yes men who say "yes, this will definitely change the world", then it turns into this optics game of kissing the ring. You ask yourself &quot