New Delhi: It is the world’s largest social networking company where even the interns are overpaid and the employees are given salaries to technically browse the site ‘all-day-long’. Not to forget it has one of the most awesome campus where great food is served.
Yet, people who work at Facebook- officially titled ‘world’s no. 1 company to work for’-have reasons to complain.
From wasting time browsing the site to sifting manager’s dirty laundry, to lack of motivation, Business Insider has posted a list of awful things about working at Facebook as revealed by some of its employees. Here’re a few of them:
1. 24/7 on-call duty
Keith Adams, Facebook engineer, has revealed that for almost six weeks out of the year, he has to be available on a 24/7 on-call duty. As a result he can’t drink more on social gatherings, can’t step out of town even on a weekend, and has to make sure his phone is ‘always’ charged and on ringer mode- even if he is sleeping.
2. Lack of team motivation
One employee complained that Facebook’s ‘make an impact’ mantra makes the entire company's workforce focus only on personal wins, not on the success of the team as a whole and that there is little value placed on a manager that has the ability to truly motivate the masses.
3. Even Facebook spouses should be able to handle user grievances
Just because an employee worked at the social networking site, he was subject to a stream of complaints from friends and family members about how certain things worked and why a few did not. His spouse posted the agony saying, “I was often asked for help on how to use the privacy settings solely on the basis that, being married to someone who works at Facebook, I must know.”
4.Facebook is like Adam Sandler; pretending to be young
A former Facebook employee said that the company still considers itself young and acts like a startup, and compared it to an Adam Sandler movie where he’s old but wants to act like a teenager.
5. Interns take the decision
Philip Su, a software engineer at Facebook, has said that he has seen decisions being made by lone engineers, or an engineer and a designer over lunch, or by interns; all without telling their managers, even.
6. Sifting laundry part of job profile
One anonymous former employee recalls, "The team treated me like garbage and I was asked to [do] really inappropriate tasks (i.e., separating the director's laundry complete with his wife's dirty undies still attached)."
7. Rude colleagues
The tone of voice used by people at Facebook is belittling and self-righteous, as revealed by one former employee who said that his colleagues were ‘snobby, cliquey, and rude’.
8. Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg spend more time on extra-curricular activities
A Facebook employee has complained that both the founder and the COO are more ‘Lean(ed) In’ towards extra- curricular activities and copying off the competition.
9. Too many emails
Former Facebook employee Thomas Moore complained that he received 1,600 or more pieces of internal communications a day.
10. Zero workplace privacy
One employee complains, “when you have huge rooms filled with rows and rows of picnic style tables with people sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with six inches of separation and zero privacy, I am sorry ... That's how you keep cattle in the pen, not high quality talent earning low to mid six figures."
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