I've never seen human beings treat each other like this before and I came from IB. My org was hyper political and cutthroat, it's not a safe environment. The PSC process was described on Blind as "performance theater" and that stuck with me because it's so painfully accurate. Mark's heavy-handed style and the broken incentive system has created a learned helplessness. The product strategies are so asinine (often coming down from Mark himself) it's impossible to take them seriously, but dissent can be very dangerous. As a result, very few at Meta are invested in the products nor do they believe in Mark or the vision. Every leader I know within my former org is simply grinding out another quarter of TC, there's no real passion or even basic integrity. Underneath the toxic positivity and fake love for the products there is only political maneuvering, no real product vision. Many teams are hyperpolitical, some of the worst people I've ever met in this industry have done extremely well at Meta. The culture openly rewards sinister behavior, there is evidence that managers who show they're willing to damage people in pursuit of a goal will be rewarded. The workload is insane, during Covid we were expected to do a regular 70 hour week for months on end. I was told by my manager that to pass PSC I needed to prioritize Meta over my health. HB1 visa holders in particular are exploited with overwork. I've never worked at a company where someone committed suicide during the workday. Meta is a completely self serving company. There is zero focus on the user. As the "Meta/Metamates (barf)/Me framework was announced I had to laugh - where's the user in all this? Who is Meta serving? Its advertisers and itself. Inefficiency is a point of pride. At one point a C level bragged that they had dozens of designers working on some small aspect of some logo, as if this was a good thing, like they had been really thorough. It was embarrassing and emblematic of the bloat.