Pros
Meta is a prestigious employer and looks great on your resume. The people I worked with at Meta are by far the most intelligent people I've ever worked with in my entire life. In addition to being work smart, they also share a high degree of emotional intelligence. Conflicts are handled with grace and respect. I've never seen people yelling at each other or becoming defensive when offered feedback. Meta has forever changed the way I work and I will be forever grateful.
Cons
What Mark Zuckerberg is doing with layoffs and cost savings has completely decimated morale. Everyone is anxious and everyone is for himself. The company I joined talked about diversity, inclusion and 'Meta, Metamates, Me". There is no sign of Metamates anywhere now. It's the Hunger Games where executives are tone deaf and don't acknowledge the panic they've set off, and employees are trying to outlive each other by backstabbing, plotting, hording information and other underhanded tactics. As cost cutting set in, the food became awful and the perks were no longer competitive. There is also no intelligible vision for the future of the company and instead the company is either chasing near-term Ads and Reels metrics or spending tons of cash on pipe dreams, like the Metaverse and questionable AI initiatives.
