I live in $MAJOR_CITY, and Meta is a not a viable workplace for serious engineers anymore.

The short term pay for the lunacy of working there is not a sensible trade-off for decent engineers.

Aside from having the sword of Damocles over you at all times because Zuck has lost his mind, there is a sense he has had 1 too many failures after Metaverse and they are seriously floundering in AI, and their core products (Ad Manager) has a very poor image, even with non-technical users.

So it's not even a sure bet you will even get a short term monetary payoff