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      3.5

      53% would recommend to a friend

      (18,059 total reviews)
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      Mark Zuckerberg

      43% approve of CEO

      51% positive business outlook

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      4.5

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      2.9

      Culture & values

      2.8

      Work/Life balance

      2.8

      Senior management

      Meta has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 18,059 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Meta employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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      18K reviews
      2.0
      Mar 4, 2022

      Best for comp, but toxic culture nowadays

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Comp is above market level (although this is starting to decline) - Chance to learn from some really awesome professionals - Benefits are top - Remote possibilities

      Cons

      - The performance feedback process (called PSC) is extremely unfair, manager decisions are not debatable and they don't need to be factual - That means it's very easy to be bullied or harassed by the manager if they don't like you (except for protected categories); the only way out is changing team (and risk of loosing rating / set back your goals) - Peers can also negatively effect your career with negative, undebatable feedback, that the manager will be forced to take into account lowering the ratings - Whenever they start a new initiaive, they simply put a bunch of senior engs together and let they fight over the path to take. Most people are extremely ambitious, and happy to work 80+ hours for a chance of earning promotions/high-rating (as these are so highly compensated); they would kill each other for the chance of leading the initiative. - This leads to a super stressful environment, where the things that count the most are long hours, politics and aggressive behaviours. - It took me a while to realize, most people drinked the kool aid in this company - Also YMMV, the company is huge and I can only speak by my experience and that of my circle My advice: if you can pass the interview process without stressing to much, get in, get some money and the title in the resume, and get out; then find a more sustainable job to settle with. My understanding is that most people is doing exactly that @ Meta. Personally though, I don't feel it's not worth it.

      1.0
      Oct 1, 2020

      Bureaucracy and politics galore

      Data science manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Salary is top of the industry Benefits, food, amenities are top-notch

      Cons

      Endless bureaucracy - the amount of time spent convincing leadership and XFNs that something is worth doing far exceeds the amount of time spent doing it. Politics and turf wars - multiple teams are competing for ownership over the same decisions. Directors will employ their teams as pawns to gain turf and evaluate them on their ability to do so. People treated as competition, not partners - FB will intentionally pit peers to out-do each other, seeing this as a motivational tactic. Churn and turnover - as priorities, ownership, and methodologies change, those part of the prior regime are cast aside. Contractor (ab)use - tens of thousands of contractors doing work indistinguishable from FTEs, being paid less and without benefits and fired at the drop of a hat.

      5.0
      Apr 15, 2018

      A place like no other

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Quite possibly the best benefits of any company in the U.S - 3 meals a day - You get to work on challenging problems at a an enormous scale - Autonomy to work on the things you want - You work with some of amazing infrastructure tools to make your workflow as efficient as possible. If an industry tool can't keep up with Facebook's scale, they'll just engineer its own solution. I think that speaks to its engineering culture. - You work with some of the smartest people in the industry. - An extremely open culture that's very self critical of itself.

      Cons

      - Depending on the team you join, work life balance can be less than adequate. This is flexible however. If you seek help, you'll get it. I think its somewhat imbued within the facebook culture to work as hard as possible to make as much impact as possible. It's really up to you to communicate WLB issues, if it exists, to your team and manager to make it work for you. I don't think people here are generally working hard to outcompete one another. It's just that everyone is super intelligent and are hard workers in general before they joined facebook.

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      Meta Response
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      Thank you for sharing your feedback, expanding our engineering presence and providing engineering growth opportunities in New York has been an area of focus. We are proud of our holistic approach to benefits and perks which includes health, family, community, finance, and convenience related aspects. We are focused on providing benefits that make a difference so that you can focus on the most important things. We are appreciative of our hard-working culture and believe our employees thrive most when they have the ability and flexibility to manage their work and life.
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