When joining, I picked Shops because it was a promising project, but after I made my decision, it was clear that the Org was notoriously disorganised. The project has lost most of its key personnel because the Director for Product was unable to give a clear direction, and censored all the reasonable ideas. My manager was inexperienced and refused to hear any suggestion that I made. It felt really demoralising and frustrating. I reached out to other managers, friends from previous job who agreed that it was frustrating… but that’s it.
– I agree, this is a horrible situation.
– What can I do about it?
– I don’t know…
– Wait a year, so I can change teams?
– Maybe. That was changed to 18 months though.
All three of the Org, the project and my manager had "the worst Pulse rating in the history of the company" at their level, according to people who had been at Facebook longer. No one reached out.
Several key stakeholders left, notably one senior Data engineer. I offered to take over some of their workload because I knew how and I badly needed data to do my own work. That was yet another suggestion that my manager shut down.
It got tiring really fast.
