Meta encourages engineers to spend time on work that improves engineering efficiency and also take time to huddle for a week to focus on creative problem solving. Better engineering One of the 4 axes that software engineers at Meta are evaluated upon during performance reviews is called Engineering excellence (previously and still…

How engineers and leaders at meta promote an “Open” culture of transparency through Weekly Q&A, Bring your own coffee (BYOC), Office hours and sharing context over workplace posts Meta had a core value of “Be open” which loosely translates to increased transparency within the company. This for some reason was…

At meta, Software engineers/developers own writing tests for their features and code, They are supported by dedicated teams and a sophisticated test infra though. At Meta, Software Engineers author most of the automated tests that gets written. Developers write unit, integration and E2E tests. There are distinct Testing frameworks to…

Each new engineer @ meta goes through a 6-week intensive boot camp program that sets them up for success in their future teams and roles. Let’s unpack how this experience looks like A long-standing pillar of Meta’s engineering culture is a 6-week dedicated boot camp program that every new hire…

How software engineers at meta have a lot of autonomy in choosing what they work on One unique aspect of Meta’s engineering culture as I experienced it, is the degree of autonomy that software engineers possess in choosing their projects. When you onboard to any new team, you initially follow…

A series of posts on sensible software engineering practices @ Meta. In this post we discuss the practice of doing your research first to unblock yourself and asking questions. I recently worked at the Meta London office as a Senior software engineer for a year and a half. I was…

Hey there, 👋 It’s been some time since I’ve written a blog. Life happened and I was busy taking care of other things. But I want to get back to more regular writing, so here we go. …

Hello there, I have been a professional working in the software testing space since 2011 and during this time have been fortunate enough to experience working in different testing organizations and setups in companies of different sizes. In this post, I want to reflect on these different organization setups and…

Learning outcome In this post, we will understand how to find an element using its adjacent elements property and hasSibling matcher Overview In the last part of our series on espresso Hello, espresso! Part 5 Automating WebViews 🕸️🌎, We understood how to automate web views with espresso. …