Meta Engineer reviews

3.3

43% would recommend to a friend

(70 total reviews)
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Mark Zuckerberg

53% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

Engineer employees have rated Meta with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 70 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Meta is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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70 reviews
2.0
Jan 18, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great food, amazing vacation policy (21 days), great maternity and paternity leave policy, great campus. You have all you can imagine, access to shuttles, on-site dentist, paid laundry services, sweet shop. The tools, infrastructure and stack let's you be very productive. For instance, setting up a website where someone can input data on a form and storing the data in a DB takes minutes. An experience at this company will open many many doors for you, it will be much easier to get phone interviews. You will also learn a lot.

Cons

The culture is pretty bad and the performance review system is a joke. Unless you abide 100% by their culture, you can't be happy. This means you are not allowed to even question their principles. If you think something needs to be fixed at the root cause, you are in trouble, because you need to Move Fast! The company over-focuses on the short term speed rather than long term. I was lied to multiple time by management. I was told my rating depended on the reviews from my peers, but then when the perf came, I realized it is 100% up to the manager regardless of what your peers say. My manager told me constantly I was doing great, then perf came and because I questioned the principles, I had a bad rating. The 360 was useless, management can use if they want to promote you, but if you are not in great terms with your manager, the 360 will be ignored. I was also told multiple times, the company is impact-based and that what matters is impact. After working on a project with another manager, I was told I could not get any credit, since it was not 100% my idea.

5.0
Jan 2, 2020

Great

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Kind of a good place

Cons

It is an ok place

1.0
Jul 18, 2019

HR driven, rudderless company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

95% of the people are fantastic. Life long friends. Pay and perks are great. The company (not some of the employees) tries to be inclusive. Facebook is a great platform, and the company, regardless of what the press says, is made up of a lot of ethical people that want to do the right thing.

Cons

Oppressive twice a year reviews that have employees turn on each other and management. Bottoms up leadership means there is no leadership. Zero direction, multiple people working on the same project in silos. Innovation hostile even though management talks about innovation all the time. If you are not young Asian, white or Indian you may be uncomfortable. The 5% of toxic employees do a lot of damage because there are so many nice people. My group, strange as it may seem is very conservative with a lot of ex-military. This mind set perhaps works for the military, but not a tech company in a rapidly changing world.

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