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      3.6

      56% would recommend to a friend

      (17,949 total reviews)
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      Mark Zuckerberg

      46% approve of CEO

      54% positive business outlook

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      4.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.0

      Culture & values

      2.9

      Work/Life balance

      2.8

      Senior management

      Meta has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 17,949 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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      3.0
      Dec 10, 2017

      Great company values, but slowly losing its culture

      Analyst
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      CEO approval
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      Pros

      - Great company values. They have put a lot of thought behind them and it's very inspiring to see what the company stands for on paper. - They are quite transparent when it comes to product strategy, roadmaps, etc. It's great how much they make you feel part of the success of the company. - Excellent benefits and perks. - Sheryl Sandberg. A thousand times.

      Cons

      - If you land in the wrong team or are a victim of poor management, HR will not do anything about it, even if you have evidence. Firstly, they are severely understaffed (one HRBP per 200 managers?). - The feedback cycles are too political. This is one of the worst things about Facebook. It has 'imported' bad habits and bad people from other companies who brought their corporate baggage with them. It didn't used to be like this. - People work on projects based on their six-month feedback review, not what's good for a team or the company. The lack of accountability from upper management makes this much worse. People get promoted for 'inventing' things that get abandoned after a month. - If you are good at public relations but do nothing, you can get very far at Facebook. It means you have 'visibility'. It's poisonous. - It has become so cynical that the latest 'trick' to get someone promoted to director is for them to organise a 'global' gathering. In other words, bring a bunch of people to Menlo Park, say it's for team building and give it a funky name or a motto... and boom! They become a Very Senior Person. - Zero work/life balance. You must be available 24/7.

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      Meta Response
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      Thank you for your candid feedback. Transparency and trust are incredibly important to how we work, so I'm glad you're seeing that in action here. We are growing our support functions including our HR teams but we understand we have a way to go. Focus on impact is one of our core values and we have made changes to our performance review process to ensure that we also encourage and recognize people who work on problems that take longer than a 6 month performance cycle to solve. This is a newer feature of our performance management program so hopefully you see this resolve some of the issues that you mention related to time-bound impact. Please continue to share specific feedback with your Manager so that we can better understand and improve on the issues around accountability and work-life balance that you raise.
      1.0
      Jun 18, 2017

      Product Support Team - Disappointment

      Product support specialist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The pros are - - The overall company culture - Good food I did not find any pro in the product support team. I would recommend working at Facebook, but be very aware of which teams you join, the core responsibilities, the manager, the career level your are joining at etc.

      Cons

      - It was a struggle to spend time in such a monotonous and mundane role. - I was sold this role to be a product role, but this is a pure Operations role. - Do not be fooled when asked / told about strong analytics required etc, you would most likely end up answer to angsty folks in sales teams and doing customer service. Please spend your time in a core role, it is where you'd have value in Facebook. It is easy to feel rudderless in this role (no matter what is told to you during your interviews). Employees in non-support / core roles are valued in the company, unfortunately this team and its immediate umbrella organization is not one of them.

      2.0
      Jan 21, 2013

      Disappointing, boring.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Perks, free and delicious food, free other stuff, 21 days vacation, good for resume. Free schedule, nice office, gym onsite etc.

      Cons

      They say they're chaotic. IMO, it's a too fancy word for that. I would say that the code-base is a mess. The corporate value "move fast and break things" is understood too literally by some engineers. That's why the product is very unstable and the UI beyond two most frequently used pages is clunky. The job is boring. Things gets done extremely slow and the quality is very far from being perfect. Too much of narcissism (we're building an awesome product, we provide really sick user experience, we're ninjas, batmans and supermans etc. etc. etc.). Maybe it's good for some people, but not for me.

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