The 16 great tragedies of working on Facebook

In the technology industry, Facebook is often identified with Google as one of the most suitable modern companies to work with, and its interns have an average wage of as much as $25000, well above the industry average, even the prestigious Workplace survey website Glassdoor previously also rated Facebook as the highest-overall-environment enterprise. But Facebook's real working environment may not be as perfect as everyone imagined, according to many of the current and former employees of Facebook, the Quora of the American social question and answer website. The following is the "16 tragedies" that we have summed up in the "Business Insider" of the famous American Technology media, which is as follows: 1. "Oncall deriving" on duty during the "Oncall deriving" on duty, all of the engineers of the Facebook service need to be on standby all the time. "Facebook engineers will have motions" oncall deriving "on duty in a year," said Quora, a Facebook engineer named Jimmy Adams. During this time, the relevant personnel must not travel, also dare not drink too much wine in social occasions. More importantly, the person on duty needs to be full of electricity and 24 hours to turn on the phone, even when sleeping, the phone should not be adjusted to vibrate mode. "2. There are no partitions inside the office." Many companies place partitions between staff working areas within their offices, but Facebook's culture is to encourage employees to develop their personalities, "said Quora, an anonymous Facebook engineer. So Facebook lacks the same expertise as any other company. "3. Organizational structure defect" a Facebook employee revealed that it is far more difficult to develop some excellent services in a company with 4000 people than in a company with just 500 people. "We're developing too fast, but we don't pay enough attention to organizational structure and corporate stability," he said. The employee wrote. 4. Innocent, a former Facebook employee's wife, says her husband has been an outlet for Facebook's dissatisfaction with friends and family. "As a Facebook employee's wife, there have been people who want me to help them solve the various privacy issues that they encounter when they use Facebook, which they have to endure as a spouse of Facebook employees." The employee's wife said. 5. Lack of focus according to a former Facebook intern, he spent all his internship time on rewriting a Facebook project, but on the last day of his internship, his team suddenly decided not to continue the work. "If my team can receive clearer instructions on future products, I believe I can effectively improve the quality of the product and bring positive impact to the company," he said. ”He said. 6. Working for others in such a seemingly "cool" company does not mean you will be able to prosper, you are still a wage earner, and are trying to help others realize their dreams. "You don't make millions of dollars for it, or you build a company that belongs to you." "said one Facebook employee. 7. Lack of guidance a former Facebook employee said: "During the maternity leave of a Facebook employee, I was temporarily assigned to take over her job." In the absence of training and coaching, I met two of the worst leaders I've ever had in my life, and that's the worst job experience I've had so far. "8. The assignment is unreasonable." An anonymous former Facebook employee said: "I am like a servant in the team, they ask me to take on some very inappropriate jobs, such as helping the boss to get back some dry cleaning clothes, including his wife's underwear. "9. Unreasonable rules of the game one employee revealed that his team was not even willing to give him any feedback after he had been unreasonably performing a 10-day employee evaluation program. After that, he tendered his resignation. "The company's internal guidance is not clear, all work is like a riddle, I have little chance of success." "he said. 10. Under, hyped although Facebook's market capitalisation has been expected to exceed $200 billion trillion, the company's performance in the previous IPO was extremely disappointing, with countless employees watching their holdings depreciate. 12. Quora, a user who is not a Facebook employee, said he was often invited to attend a technology symposium organized by Facebook, but he did not receive any valuable information at these meetings. "In many cases, Facebook seems to be focusing too much on its confrontation with Google and often forgets about its strengths and mission." The user said. 13. There's no privacy. One current Facebook, Quora, said: "Forget about free food and drinks, the working environment here is terrible." You don't have any privacy at all when you're just 6 feet away from the office space of your co-workers, like an outdoor picnic, and that's how Facebook works. "14. The decision making process is missing a Facebook engineer named Philip Su posted a blog post last year entitled" I hate the 10 aspects of my Facebook job, "he said. In this article, he has completely subverted the external view of the work of Facebook. "I have seen an example of an engineer unilaterally making a project decision after having lunch with a designer, or even an intern who is likely to make a decision without reporting to his boss, which shows that Facebook is seriously missing other big companiesDecision making process. "The Philip-Sue blog wrote. 15. Tension between colleagues a former Facebook employee said the relationship between colleagues at the company was sometimes very tense, because others spoke in a tone that was unfriendly or even arrogant. "People speak in a tone of contempt and arrogance, and I think they are snobbish and even disrespectful." The employee said. 16. Dry Philip-Sue acknowledges that a product strategy is the key to ultimately bringing value to any company's products, and Facebook is no exception. "Without a proper product strategy, our job becomes programming, programming, and reprogramming, and I'm tired of doing it," he said. "said Sue.