Meta reviews

Harassment, intimidation, endless review cycles, brainwashing, STACK RANKING, terrible management and hypocrisy. They took a huge toll on my mental health, from which I am still recovering with a help of professional therapist. The trauma from bullying, toxic work environment and indirect harassment is abysmal. Please do not join this company unless you want to ruin your mental health. Lies are horrible. Facebook taught all wrong lessons in life: for example, everything the upper management says should be interpreted as the opposite. There is a stack ranking, where 10-18 percent of employees are slated to not meet expectations at the review cycle. Facebook officially denies doing this, however it is in every management training and most managers are admitting it. It is in management tooling! 18% - it's like triple the Amazon's. At least Amazon is honest about stack ranking their employees.

As the title says, FB is not for everybody IMO. The recent set of 1-star ratings list pretty much all the things that made me leave: questionable work-life-balance, no planning/structure, arrogant/ignorant coworkers, every man for himself/every woman for herself, cliques, political, inept managers, poor communication/rumor mill/back-stabbing, no teamwork, management by attention-deficit disorder. The work-life-balance issue goes beyond the mere hours: it is expected that you become FB friends with all your coworkers, managers, etc. FB makes it impossible for the realm of your private life to remain separate from your workplace and coworkers. This wasn't working for me, but I recognize that for others this isn't an issue. It seemed to me that much that is broken at FB is perpetuated by the in-clique and in fact gets sold as the great achievements of FB's unique culture.