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> Not everyone who works at Meta has a better, more ethical option. Come on now. Software engineers at Meta are not trapped with Meta on their resume (whatever

> Not everyone who works at Meta has a better, more ethical option. Come on now. Software engineers at Meta are not trapped with Meta on their resume (whatever you may think of the company itself). Most of the FAANG, for engineering, just having that name on your resume, opens up doors. You might get less than $700K TC as an E6 but that's also not "trapped" unless you've chosen to outspend your income.

siren2026 5mo ago
Exactly. Working at Meta means you studied for 4 weeks for the leetcode interviews. That type of dedication means you could very easily get any job anywhere else. And please don't compare someone making 800k$ with someone scanning a ticket for Ticketmaster.
- FireBeyond 5mo ago
  How am I doing that? I'm talking about people who have very valid options elsewhere. "I'm stuck at Meta, making $800K, I have no other options". We're talking about software engineers who created much of the things they're complaining about. I'm not talking about say, cafeteria or custodial staff. And I despise Meta, and you can say whatever you want about Leetcode (and I tend to agree) but don't pretend that there are many many rungs of "software engineering calibers" in jobs that wouldn't see Meta, or Netflix and say "we have to interview this person".
  - siren2026 5mo ago
    You misread my comment. I'm in agreement with you all the way.
  - dangus 5mo ago
    Interesting, I’ve found job postings at Meta that pay under $100k for data center jobs in Ohio. There are also network engineering jobs in South Carolina that start at $105k. Do you think people in Bowling Green, OH are flooded with employment options? They can just walk down the street to go work at Google or Apple right? If I’m in Huntsville, Alabama and I’m a mechanic should I turn down this job because Meta isn’t ethical? https://www.metacareers.com/profile/job_details/1949481595892560 https://www.metacareers.com/profile/job_details/194948159589... And where should I go work instead in Alabama? For the super duper ethical local car dealership? I would also point out that many of Meta’s departments like hardware engineering have a much smaller US job pool than software engineering. If you’re in the US and your profession is electrical engineering you you can’t just work remote anywhere or find a bank or insurance company in practically any city in the US to get a job with. A lot of your job prospects as a hardware engineer are also with the military and defense contractors. Meta is also one of the few companies that has job postings for PhD researcher type folks that only otherwise employable as professors at universities at relatively low salaries. If you’re a scientist in certain fields it’s a similar situation: try to become a professor, work for the government, or find the rare company like Meta that performs cutting edge research.

siren2026 5mo ago

Exactly. Working at Meta means you studied for 4 weeks for the leetcode interviews. That type of dedication means you could very easily get any job anywhere else. And please don't compare someone making 800k$ with someone scanning a ticket for Ticketmaster.

FireBeyond 5mo ago
How am I doing that? I'm talking about people who have very valid options elsewhere. "I'm stuck at Meta, making $800K, I have no other options". We're talking about software engineers who created much of the things they're complaining about. I'm not talking about say, cafeteria or custodial staff. And I despise Meta, and you can say whatever you want about Leetcode (and I tend to agree) but don't pretend that there are many many rungs of "software engineering calibers" in jobs that wouldn't see Meta, or Netflix and say "we have to interview this person".
- siren2026 5mo ago
  You misread my comment. I'm in agreement with you all the way.
- dangus 5mo ago
  Interesting, I’ve found job postings at Meta that pay under $100k for data center jobs in Ohio. There are also network engineering jobs in South Carolina that start at $105k. Do you think people in Bowling Green, OH are flooded with employment options? They can just walk down the street to go work at Google or Apple right? If I’m in Huntsville, Alabama and I’m a mechanic should I turn down this job because Meta isn’t ethical? https://www.metacareers.com/profile/job_details/1949481595892560 https://www.metacareers.com/profile/job_details/194948159589... And where should I go work instead in Alabama? For the super duper ethical local car dealership? I would also point out that many of Meta’s departments like hardware engineering have a much smaller US job pool than software engineering. If you’re in the US and your profession is electrical engineering you you can’t just work remote anywhere or find a bank or insurance company in practically any city in the US to get a job with. A lot of your job prospects as a hardware engineer are also with the military and defense contractors. Meta is also one of the few companies that has job postings for PhD researcher type folks that only otherwise employable as professors at universities at relatively low salaries. If you’re a scientist in certain fields it’s a similar situation: try to become a professor, work for the government, or find the rare company like Meta that performs cutting edge research.