Meta Software Engineering Manager reviews

Performance review. It works this way: 1. Leadership escalate project X 2. You clearly don't see any impact of X, but has to disagree and commit 3. You give the project to an eng from your team (even if they disagree) 4. Eng executes the project 5. PSC comes. And eng does not receive credit for X because, guess what, no impact And this loop happens again and again. You build a special skill how to dodge from this crappy non impactful projects.

Working from Europe, the hours are insane. It’s not that you have too much work (although sometimes that, too), but that everyone you work with gets up after 6 PM. Not sure what could be done to fix that, though, unless California people start getting up at 6 AM. The constant changes of direction can be exhausting - I believe leadership that course correcting is necessary, but it would be best if this stuff was done faster and with less disruption. Not really a con for me, but this is definitely not the place to rest and vest - the upside is that you are not likely to have coworkers who are not pulling their weight, but it can be stressful, especially for junior people.