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Comment by joshdavham | Hacker News Reader

I think Meta already has very deep cultural problems.

If you've ever browsed teamblind.com (which I strongly recommend against as I hate that site), you'll see what the people who work at Meta are like.

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That's true with every Tech company employees. They all want $1 M TC and work 10 hours / week

You’re describing the management not the employees

The 4% Rule means everybody with $25M is getting $1M per year for zero hours of work per week. Google tells me Sam has $1.7B.

What are they like? since you recommend not browsing this site?

The posts from Meta employees on teamblind are generally cynical, status/wealth-obsessed and mean.

Off topic, but the existence of this teamblind.com site escaped my notice till now.

Is there a particular reason to hate it (aside from it being social media)?

It has obvious pros, but since you asked about the cons —- anonymity brings the worst out of people; TC chasing leads to a reductionist view of people’s values and skills.

For example unlike HN you don’t often do technical discussions on blind, by design. So it is a “meta”-level strategy discussion of the job, then it skews politics, gossips, stock price etc..

This is compounded by it being social media, where negativity can be amplified 5-10x.

Mainly because it brings out the worst in people. It’s easy to read Blind too much and take on a very cynical, money-driven view of everything in your life, which of course a Blind addict would justify as clear-eyed and pragmatic.

I hate teamblind because it makes me feel really negative about our industry.

I actually really like tech - the problems we get to work on, the ever-changing technological landscape, the smart and passionate people, etc, etc. But teamblind is just filled with cynical, wealth-obsessed and mean careerists. It's like the opposite of HN in many ways.

And if you ever wondered where the phrase "TC or GTFO" originated... it's from teamblind.

I looked at it once, seemed full of young men discussing hair loss issues and how to get a girlfriend.

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