Meta reviews

3.5

53% would recommend to a friend

(18,059 total reviews)
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43% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

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 Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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18K reviews
4.0
Apr 10, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Smart people. Cutting edge technologies. Amazing food.

Cons

Some huge, out-of-control egos in management, especially at the middle layers. Couple that with the general immaturity of the company and you'll see some very poor judgement and "Game of Thrones" style politics in a few departments. Average tenure of a staff engineer is about 4 years - mostly because after the initial stock grants vest there is near zero incentive for anyone under a Director level to stay any longer. Culture creates and fosters entitled whiners - so much so that it is a running joke inside the company, with groups such as "Patently Absurd Requests for Facebook Offices" making fun of it all. But then again, this company is largely made up of the "participation trophy" generation, who have been told they were super-special since they were born. Being hired by Facebook amplifies that self-esteem level well beyond eleven. It is never spoken about, but staff turnover is huge. The washout rate of n00bs is likely around 40%. Truly talented staff move around, so team continuity is rare. Zero work-life balance - unless you happen to have a kid while working there.

5.0
Oct 15, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Smart and driven colleagues Vision of management and Mark Zuckerberg to prioritize long term goals over short term ones Ability to work on a product that affects hundreds of millions of people Employees given large responsibilities relatively early in their careers Strong culture makes it fun to work here

Cons

Relatively understaffed which means you have more responsibility and ability to define your work but longer hours Facebook starting to grow and increase its level of bureaucracy although it is still limited

2.0
Mar 10, 2023

Wanted to love it

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* salary/perks/401k contributions * A lot of really smart people to learn from and grow your skills. Well-seasoned "engineers at heart". * Access to incredible scale (of systems) not present outside of FAANG * If you get lucky, you'll get a good manager who has your back and maintains integrity and helps you grow. If you're even luckier, you'll get into a functional team with reasonable expectations.

Cons

* lots of toxic senior people and management that will use any excuse to cut you down and lie to your face repeatedly without consequences * Lots of insufferable politics that leave services in a terrible state and the team ends up with really high turnover rate because no one wants to stay * Extreme, constant, and unnecessary pressure to "perform" that may leave you with poor mental and physical health. * If there's no metrics to back anything you've invested effort into in order to do it right/better for the long term, it didn't happen and it doesn't matter. * Be prepared to constantly defend your entire existence and worth, especially if you're an early-career engineer. There's no trust in engineers, only engineers who become at least part-time politicians. Be prepared to become a blogger so you can advertise everything you're doing to people who don't care by posting to internal groups so that it looks good in front of management and is easier to "sell" during performance evaluations. An introvert's nightmare. * There's no "bottom-up" culture anymore, you do what you're told, or else.

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