I'm not a Meta engineer, but if I had to offer a guess, the answer would be money.

scottious 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I saw a comment by an anonymous Meta engineer who said that it's difficult to leave when you see $2m worth of unvested stock sitting in your account. How many years would you be miserable for $2m? Many people can be easily seduced by that amount of money

	▲	zipy124 13 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Given it's like 30 years of my salary I'd probably be willing to be miserable for a number of years.
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	▲	afavour 15 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Totally understandable, and probably another reason why morale is so low, as employees watch the stock price and their personal fortunes fall.
	▲	tinfoilhatter 15 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I guess it depends - if the miserable conditions and work I was doing only affected me, maybe a couple of years. The problem here is that Meta is a company that actively does harm to the world. They've contributed to genocide in Myanmar, harmed children, and overall have been a net negative on society. So my answer to your question, if we're strictly talking about Meta, is none. I would never work for a company like Meta because I value other humans more than money.

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mullingitover 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Having a passion for personal financial solvency is a major motivation for a surprising number of people.

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danans 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Money is a proxy for other things. In the places where meta has offices, the cost of living (housing, childcare, healthcare, etc etc) is so high that working for a company that pays like Meta can be the only way many can afford it all.

It's hard to expect people to sacrifice a comfortable non-extravagant lifestyle for principles.

Are there some purely money-centric lambo loving single sociopaths at companies like Meta? Sure.

However,there are probably many more employees who are not thrilled about the company's business model but dependent on the pay, while living in a system concentrates wealth and access to both capital and doesn't guarantee or make affordable the aforementioned basics of modern life.

Hopefully many of them wake up to the folly the system that makes u like Meta (or Apple, Google, etc) effectively gatekeepers of a good standard of living, but until then it's hard to question their motivation for working at these companies "for the money".