10 aweful things employees complain while working at Facebook

New Delhi: For most of us working at Facebook is a dream as the social networking giant has been regarded as one of the best places to work in the tech industry. But not all are happy campers – as some have given bizarre answers to a question posted by question-and-answer website Quora.Quora created, edited and organized by its community of users, had asked a question 'worst thing about working at Facebook' to which the social media giant's employees gave varied and interesting answers.Let us take a look at some of them:"For six weeks out of the year, I'm on 24/7 on-call duty."According to one employee the worst thing about working at Facebook has been oncall duty. A lot of teams working on different projects have a rotating responsibility for responding to unanticipated emergencies. Since these can happen any time, day or night, and are of unknowable scope and severity, being oncall is a serious responsibility since millions of users are affected every minute the site is broken."For those weeks I don't leave town on the weekend; make especially sure not to have 'one too many' at any social gatherings I attend; and most importantly, carry and immediately respond to a charged phone where I can be reached 24/7, including leaving the ringer on on the nightstand as I sleep." - Keith Adams, Facebook engineer."The wall does not exist at Facebook.""At most companies, you put up a wall between a work personality and a personal one, which ends up with a professional workspace," said an anonymous Facebook engineer on Quora. Since Facebook culture encourages employees to "be themselves," the company lacks the "professionalism" found at other firms, he said.'Don't complain to me about Facebook just because I work at Facebook.'The spouse of a former Facebook employee said that her husband received a lot of complaints about the site from friends and family, just because he was employed by the company.'You are not building a new exciting company of your own.'Employees quip that working for a cool company is still work as you're working to fulfil someone else's dream.'It was probably my worst professional experience to date.''As a contractor and back fill for someone on maternity leave, I was temporarily assigned (as an admin) with very little guidance or support, serving two of the worst leaders I've ever interacted with,' claimed an anonymous former employee of the social network giant.'I was asked to complete really inappropriate tasks.'One anonymous former employee of Facebook confessed, '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).''Instructions were not clear, everything was a guessing game, and I was immediately set up to fail.'One former employee said his team didn't even bother to give him feedback after being out to a 10-day performance plan.'We're looking too hard at Google.'This Quora user said he was often invited to Facebook's tech talks, where he finds 'no WOW factor' despite the fact that he did not work for Facebook. 'A lot of times Facebook seems to be looking too hard at Google rather than focusing on their core strengths and mission.''I've seen decisions being made by interns.'After two years of Facebook employment, Philip Su, a software engineer at Facebook, published '10 Things I Hate About Working At Facebook' on his personal blog last year, and said: 'I've seen decisions being made by lone engineers. Or an engineer and a designer over lunch. Or by interns,' he writes. 'All without telling their managers, even. This sort of autonomous decision-making suggests a complete lack of understanding of how corporations are supposed to work.''The drama.'Su says that politics and mutual suspicion are ultimately what creates the dynamism and drama that make work worthwhile. 'Without these, it's just code, code, code. Ship, ship, ship. I get tired just thinking about it.'

10 aweful things employees complain while working at Facebook

New Delhi: For most of us working at Facebook is a dream as the social networking giant has been regarded as one of the best places to work in the tech industry. But not all

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