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"Morale is super high," reads the post from a self-described engineer. "We are paid a ton. Looking forward to my yearly bonus of $100k. Fuck ethics. Money is everything."

Sounds like Mark has done an excellent job of cloning his younger self.



I know someone who had this exact attitude while they worked at Instagram until a few months ago. That's when they left the company and started bashing Facebook's practices.


Communist until you get rich. Atheist until plane starts falling down.


That's only true for people who had shaky principles and no integrity in the first place.


So most people. Got it.


I’m pretty sure they reduced their yearly bonus percentage multiplier for the year (iirc, it’s under 1.0) so I’m genuinely wondering what the OPs base is.


Are you sure? Wouldn't they keep it up to retain the people after the scandals.


They did some belt tightening last year - they reduced their base intern conversion bonus by $10k to $65k. I'm also not convinced the scandals actually convince anybody to leave.




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