Meta reviews

3.5

52% would recommend to a friend

(18,168 total reviews)
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41% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Meta has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 18,168 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Aug 12, 2023
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Pros

Working at global scale, Meta has to solve some unique problems few other companies have the opportunity to see. Meta will often be at the forefront of new technology, or sometimes is creating that new technology, for solving problems. Smaller companies often have to settle for commercial off-the-shelf products that half-work or don't actually properly work, but Meta can do it properly. Your managers will most likely care about you and do their best to support you in whatever you need. Base pay is probably a bit lower than other similar companies, but overall benefits are incredibly hard to beat.

Cons

Upper management doesn't care about you at all. Your immediate managers do, their managers probably do, beyond that it's uncertain, and by the time you get to the VP level they don't care about the individual person. Diversity support is a joke, you're supported as long as you fit one of these very specific predefined Silicon Valley molds otherwise you get support for what fits in that rather small space. Talking about what's wrong is strongly discouraged, there's even a policy that people have fallen afoul of just for criticizing that same policy's impact on discussions about how to improve life at the company! Career progression is less about what you actually do and more about how much a bunch of people think you do. I've done some huge things, well-received by people and still talked about today as a good example of a company-wide high-impact project but got a bad rating, and I've very recently had a year where I did basically nothing all year but made a bunch of upper managers happy and got a great rating. The way multiple layoffs have been handled has left us not knowing whether it's even worth working hard for a great rating anymore since we've seen high performers fired and low performers safe. At first layoffs were held dishonestly, but then subsequent layoffs were held in possibly one of the worst ways to respond to those criticisms.

1.0
Jul 10, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Great compensation, lots of free perks especially if you work in office (free food, field trips, etc)

Cons

As an intern I was working 12 hour days every day. No one cares about your mental health. Managers just want you to work faster. No matter how fast you work or how good your work is, they just want you to go faster next time. Don't care about employee's health or how much they work. No diversity. As a Latino I faced a lot of racism and microaggressions.

2.0
Jun 26, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Best pay and benefits you can get in the UK tech sector from mid to senior IC positions.

Cons

- The performance review tend to set employees against each other. Although it's not everywhere as some teams manage to create great collectives, the status quo always degenerates into a rat race where you do not know whether your colleagues are peers or competitors. Very toxic - There is no accountability from leadership. From mid to C-Level they cannot figure out a proper strategy, avoid making decisions and then blame ICs for poor performance. (Heard of year of efficiency, increased intensity, yeah all that) - The company is the most US centric which treats London like a dumpster for projects Americans do not want to do and takes away successful projects created here. - tech stack is all internal so it can set your career back in certain domains like data and ML.

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