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1. wfwefw+J3[view] [source] 2018-09-28 17:14:25
>>colone+(OP)
Recently talked to 2 friends working for fb. According to them, the culture there is very toxic. For a master's degree, once get in, you need to get promoted in 22 months (I might misremember the actual number.) or you will have to leave. Debugging is never counted as a real work, so for quick promotion, nobody wants to solve bugs unless a bug becomes too obvious. And they also complained about no work-life balance. They got pushed to check-in code at 12a.m. for example.
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2. Shish2+6v[view] [source] 2018-09-28 20:25:46
>>wfwefw+J3
I suspect that that's very team-dependant (in a company with thousands of engineers in tens of offices, most things are). Personally I got promoted based on debugging / code cleanups / reliability work, and I don't remember the last time I worked outside my self-assigned working hours (~10am-6pm) (Aside from on-call shifts, where I got one false-alarm on a weekend a few weeks ago). If one of my teammates messaged me asking for code review at midnight and it wasn't a "the site will be down if this doesn't land right now" issue, then I'd reject their code on the basis that we should all be in bed :P

My understanding of the "get promoted or leave" thing is "engineers hired as juniors are expected to get to mid-level in under 5 years (with a half-way milestone at 2 years)"; once you're mid-level it's up to you if you want to carry on climbing. Personally once I got there I switched to a "work more efficiently in fewer hours and keep the same overall productivity" approach instead of trying to get promoted into the senior levels, and that's worked out nicely so far :)

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3. progra+rW[view] [source] 2018-09-29 02:53:23
>>Shish2+6v
> I switched to a "work more efficiently in fewer hours and keep the same overall productivity" approach.

Train me, please.

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