A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer at Meta/Facebook 

Dude owns a Tesla just to take the shuttle.

Good to know people still use old school NCS as background music

Thank you for sharing this. In my opinion working there it's seems very organized and loneliness at the same time.

I am a teacher in rural India. I may not have such a magnanimous luxurious life, but I enjoy being with people, living together, and enjoying life together! Kudos to your life too!!!

Besides all controversy around the company the video you made is nice to watch and gives a good idea to outsiders of your average day, great job!

I’ve been lucky enough to see this in person. I got family that works in the same office and they were able to give us a tour. I grew up in the northeast so the whole Silicon valley vibe was doing it for me. But it definitely looks like a nice comfy place to work

Wish my day was that easy as a senior product marketing manager. Spend 4-6 hours in meetings then another 2-4 hours building decks, replying emails and developing strategy documents, for way less money. Thank god I love what I do.

This is one of the most motivated videos that i watch it i hope to have a regular job in such amazing environment . Your specialist is interesting also keep hard work man and smart work👍

Man this whole different world. Hope you would continue making videos

I love this video, the music you use was the music I used to love when I was 12 years old, really like the way you record the video!!

Building 14 still looks the same in the inside. Great to see things are somewhat back on track during the post-pandemic months.

Well.. I work like x2 of hours of this guy in a similar position in a company that is based in a 3rd world country. Can only pay for foods and bills.. The geography you live is destiny I guess.. I want to feel the feeling of like not to worry about buying new anything. Hope one day everyone will deserve what they get for their hardwork 🙏🏻✌️

I hope people at Meta do talk to their colleagues as well.

Everyone here seem happy about this working day. To me It doesn't look like heaven. Getting up at 7:30, starting to work at 9:30, going home at 5:30 PM and getting home like 6:30 PM is terrible! No free time for your hobbies or family. I have a similar job, but I get up at 5:30 AM, start working at 7:00 and going home at 3:30 PM (fridays 1:30 PM) and that is waaaay better. Just spending whole day at work looks like hell to me and doesn't matter how much I love my job.

As a software engineer graduate who quit that career path as soon as I finished school, I don’t know why but seeing this video is very calming.

The dubstep as bgm for the chill vlog really sent me

Really cool to see this! I used to work at a large Financial Credit Union with an HQ Campus just like this, but to this day I'm still not sure how much I miss it though!

Great video men , keep making more video on meta campus ,I'm eagerly waiting for you next video of meta campus tours 👍🏻

Coding 4hours without break, no chit chat with pple and bought tesla to take the shuttle. True coder.

Great video, you work very hard but it was good to see you take a bit of time to enjoy short breaks and get outside during parts of the day

I would love to do one of these videos with BNSF and the Mechanical Facility here in Barstow. Fixing 4500 HP diesel trains, and understanding our....complex culture.

Nice video Austin :). I left Facebook 8 months ago and this brought back lots of memories. I think it would be nice to show more of MPK classic (deprecated), including the woodshop and obviously hacker square.

You're doing great job Austin & you have to be proud of what your doing. Each minutes you spend = will pay back more knowledge and income ! :)

This is just a perfect way to describe it. Have a blast, A!

So fun to watch... please do more campus tour!

bro legit played the songs which i used to jam out to 10 years ago.

I love how they get up after the first alarm sound

Perfect example of why remote working is the best. You could have done everything job related by staying in your bedroom.

I didn't see your work pressure bro. You enjoyed your day. You are truly blessed with this kind of environment. And what kind of skills are needed in meta. I noticed you worked on the VS Code IDE.

Awesome Austin !! Keep Growing and Grooving ✨✨. One small advice. In my opinion you should shoot videos on Software engineering and coding related stuff, it would shine out best on your channel alongwith your rest videos and certainly would help me or one of the other person to become a successful maang company engineer like the way u are Austin !✨😄😄.. Best wishes for your future endeavours 🙌

As a previous employee of meta (tier 2) this is great! I find it interesting to see an software engineer. But yeah working with meta feels so, lonely coz every employee and as well as your teammates has different schedules. So, most of the time you're alone. Even from break and lunch time.

Amazing songs in the background, good scenes! 👍🏻

hello wish u a great day! i'm about to choose my engineering course and i'm still unsure about information tech related courses. just afraid of it's lifestyle as they say working as a programmer makes it hard to socialize, ruin your body, and a lot of stress and working for a lot of extra hours.. is that really true?? and thanks

Great video! Thank You for sharing Austin. I can’t wait to come back to Facebook and start working there is a software developer.

best music u coulda chosen, good video man

Your work day is better than my holiday!

Imagine you're a software engineer at Meta like Austin 😉 Lots of love from India dude ❤

Wow, Meta's place is SO BIG. It's like a small downtown

Thank you for sharing the video its a great virtual experience.

I work on the same field, and it is true what some of the comments say, it gets lonely sometimes, specially during/after covid times, where most of the people work from home/remotely and there's less human interaction

Looks all is good over there. Not much stress. I think it's cool to work in Meta

I feel like appointing myself a community morale officer and fly over to try and spread some cheer. It’s a bit like Metropolis.

Thanks a lot for the insights 🙏🏼😊

The distance from your office to the cafeteria is the like as the distance from my house to my school.

This vid really encourage me to keep studying to become A software engineer like you sir. Thankyou

Great video! Working hard to get in meta hope I get some referees.

Goat music video!! Just joking, amazing video, thank you for making it

I absolutely love working remote but this seems like a nice place to work from

does your camera battery not run out leaving it on throughout the night just to capture you waking up?

I want to work like that, work less, eat a lot, earn big, work effectively

works, keep up the good work man

Nice video dude. What kind of products do you build with Python/Django?

Software Engineering work finished at 530 pm ..it's unbelievable...most of my frnds work upto 10 pm....

the automatons of the future, empty offices, no social contact, only from the computer, how sad😢

kind of feels like what I'm doing right now, sitting at a computer, typing stuff, minus all the doors

Nice video man, you almost killed me with the music though.

Mask while walking on the street - super smart!😂

I wonder how many times "Meta" had to review this video before allowing it out. I'm a recruiter and headhunting Meta people is pretty easy, now I see why. Sterile, soulless environment and lame office. However; I think you are awesome Austin and please keep your options open. There are so many better companies to work for quality of life wise. I didn't know how much until I saw this. There is more to life than making your folks happy by working for a company they have heard of.

I loved the 2014 youtube minecraft edit songs in the background :)

Blessed guy with the perfect life.

Do you still have the job?

Loved the video...keep making more👍

I liked the video. how many hours of actual work do u do per day? Also, could any of that work have been done from home?

Awesome video..thanks for your wonderful life

Coding 1 : 00 AM to 5 : 00 PM he just shown us like he touched laptop and he took a break :) Nicely edited man

The fact that you own a tesla....Is one of the biggest motivation for me now to become a software engineer 😌

I still 😢 can’t believe you were gone ❤

Going onto the an empty office to work remotely. Now that's meta.

I don't know your work pressure but... Whatever you showed in this video is relaxed daily lifestyle. May be you blessed to work in that kind of environment. I loved it.

He could be virtual reality

still be good as leaving office at 5:30pm, I remember many times my software colleauges left at 19-20pm and still worked on Saturday :D

No wonder Meta is lay offing so many people, the working there is much too relaxing...

Very sad day, always alone, work alone, eat alone, leave alone. He have a best car in the world but preffer take a shuttle to see some people around. He did’t smile even during the meeting because it’s very sad place to be. Dude money is not all in life. Be happy dont be alone good luck to you 👍🏻

After seeing so many videos like these, I have came to know that there is no social life in big companies like Facebook and Google.

If this was Brazil, you would start working at 8am straight to 8pm non stop, eating while team meeting, and you would still never be able to affoard a tesla

Will be good if some of u guys can show us what are the stuffs usually coded. ☺️

Just applied for my bachelor being; "Bachelor of Engineering in Software Technology" ! Can't wait for next year!

That was really great! I was wondering where you have the opportunity to interact with other colleagues in person. I gather the video did purposely exclude to leave where possible others out of the video, and with the number of desks shown at the beginning, there are many others that sit around you. Just the same, it did leave me feeling that you pretty much are in isolation within the work areas. Overall, it was a really nice and interesting composition; I especially liked your humour.

i'm pretty curious, but which kind of task you do? it is something related to Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp or any other software development area?

I liked your video. It's amazing and more interactive. I have question dude, when you have group meetings to discuss some important decision on designs. ?😀

One of those offices where employees maybe hate weekends and look forward to mondays 😀

I saw the news that Zukerberg wants to fire the underperform employees, many ppl are saying he may included employees who have ‘extra’ time to create YT channels. Too much extra time = too much free time at work. Did you feel any pressure internally yet?

Very Nice Video ... WOW All the Best!

Dudes going to cafeteria was longer than anything else🤣🤣

Sure would be nice if you didn't have to drive to the shuttle and there was some kind of efficient method of transportation that could get you there. Also, for a job at a social media company you do sure seem to spend a lot of time alone.

You work for 40yrs to have $1M in your retirement,meanwhile some people are putting just $10K in a meme coin from just few months ago and now they are multimillionaires.

Cute and cozy day in the life

Great work on this content! Thank you for sharing.

First, let me premise this comment to say, in no way is this an attack on this good kid. Now a few observations. I, personally, find that lifestyle devoid of any feeling or life. Get up, shower, go to shuttle, work in a warehouse, then go home. The worst part were the massive lines of displays and cafeteria tables to work at. The only thing I experienced in this video that had any life to it, was the upbeat music. The only time I saw this kid smile, was at the end of the video. Maybe he was really relieved to be leaving the dungeons at Meta? I sincerely hope that this nice kid experiences a life outside of what we see here. I’m sure he makes a good living here, but one day, anything he’s doing, will be replaced by a robot/software, probably written by AI. To me, working at a place like that, is about as repulsive a thing that I can imagine. Just think of the music was changed to something less upbeat, I probably wouldn’t have got through the entire video. Again, I mean this as no offense to the author of this video. I’m sure he’s a nice guy.

It keeps me thinking, why would u go to campus while you can do all kind of these work from home and there literally no one were at the office beside you. But still it looks like a huge campus, I can’t imagine how big it is. Btw, are all of those lunch and snacks free for employees?

it is strange that the table in the open space has no partitions. All the same, most people are more comfortable working with at least a small, but visually fenced off personal space

Nice video. When you hit the wasabi hard it hits right back LOL

Don’t you have an NDA that prohibits you from doing any if this?

Caralho meu sonho ter uma vida dessa!

Thanks! It seems a very quiet working environment. Do you have to work after dinner?

Thank you for sharing this

Reads article on Meta that says, “If I had to bet, I’d say that this might be one of the worst downturns that we’ve seen in recent history,” Zuckerberg said. “Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn’t be here.” Then this video gets recommended to me 😂😂

So he wake up at 7:30, walk out of home at 8:10, and start working at 9:30, almost two hours of waste on commute. This is why WFH is better. Saving time, energy, money, and protect the environment. Why aren't the big techs leading the way now? I thought they are big on protecting the environment.

Awesome, hope I get there someday

Thank you for sharing