Meta Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.2

41% would recommend to a friend

(467 total reviews)
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35% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Meta with 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 467 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Meta is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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467 reviews
4.0
Jun 20, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- lots of great engineers - best in class internal tooling that you will miss afterwords - great benefits

Cons

- seems like all levels of managements are more concerned with hitting deadlines than if what is being built is actually useful to users.

2.0
Jun 15, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good compensation - Great internal tools, a lot of them - Great people to learn from

Cons

1. Lack of clear direction from leadership. Priorities shift continuously, every year or every 6 months 2. Lack of long-term vision. All projects are PSC-oriented and need to produce measurable results in a short time. This has all sort of side effects like shortcuts, tech debt, and lack of innovation. 3. A bottom-up culture where engineers are pressured to find the scope and projects to work on, but constrained by points 1 and 2 and without having control on anything 4. Absurd 10% fire/10% hire rule, which exacerbates point 2

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