Meta reviews

3.5

53% would recommend to a friend

(18,040 total reviews)
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Mark Zuckerberg

43% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Meta has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 18,040 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 Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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18K reviews
1.0
May 10, 2021

Burned out

Recommend
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Pros

- Great pay - Amazing coworkers - Great autonomy (with certain managers) - Easy internal mobility

Cons

- Nobody cares about work-life balance. It’s been one of the poorest scoring items on the internal company survey ever since I joined. Every time they talk about how they are going to address it, they say that work-life balance isn’t correlated with employee retention and is therefore lower priority. They literally tell us that. Then they make no effort to improve it. It’s getting worse and worse now with many of my colleagues working until midnight almost day. - HR seems to have no power over bad managers. They acknowledged that I had a poor manager, yet they could do nothing to correct their behavior. Eventually they told me that I should just find a new team because there was nothing they could do.

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Meta Response
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Thank you for sharing your honest feedback about your time at Facebook. We're sorry to hear that feeling burnt out led to your decision to leave. From 1:1's, internal surveys, and other markers, we're aware that striking the right balance between living life and having a rewarding career is something our employees care deeply about. Please know that we take it seriously, too. Although you've moved on from Facebook, we will share what you have written with the appropriate HRBP team members.
2.0
Sep 10, 2020
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Pros

Facebook has good benefits and provides you the ability to learn quickly with a lot of data

Cons

The culture has changed drastically to become very top down. There is also a drastic lack of diversity in leadership, everyone above me was a white guy, and they all thought very highly of themselves. Facebook is not a good place to work if you're a parent, there was no empathy for having to take time to deal with kid things during COVID when my partner and I were both working full time. My manager stated that Facebook might not be a great place for me as a parent. I was also penalized for taking time to pump. Leadership doesn't care about issues parents are facing, or issues people of color are facing.

2.0
Oct 5, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Lot of perks that a fresh grad would care for. Food is awesome. Good medical and 401k benefits, may be bit better than most companies. Fast promotion if you can work long hours. Fast paced environment, you'll get to learn new stuff all the time. Lot of smart engineers around.

Cons

With fast promotion comes fast firing. It's up or out policy up to a certain level. Not a good place for senior engineers joining. Too much stress in the team driven by performance reviews, which is the most aggressive that I've ever known. Emphasis is on individual impact, due to which there's lot of distrust within the team. No stack ranking, but a curve is implemented a org level. This is not a big deal in other companies but here it means 'out'. Managers main job is to write performance reviews, and this often leads to micro management that can be extremely frustrating to senior engineers. There's lot of work duplication, most managers (even directors) ignore it as performance reviews is all about impact. Most engineers know that everyone wants to write code and make impact, so ignore the code duplication. Some teams are hiring just for the head count, not much impactful work. This becomes a problem for senior engineers as they have to invent work or get out. Before joining a team check out their roadmap for at least a year. This is a good place if you want make money at the cost of WLB. Not a place to be innovative, which inherently carries risk and takes time. It's a risk because if there's no impact you'll be fired. Most of the engineers work to satisfy performance reviews. My work is determined keeping performance review as the guideline. But company will be fine, lot of good engineers capable of quickly delivering a fix or hack a feature.

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