Meta reviews

The culture is pretty bad and the performance review system is a joke. Unless you abide 100% by their culture, you can't be happy. This means you are not allowed to even question their principles. If you think something needs to be fixed at the root cause, you are in trouble, because you need to Move Fast! The company over-focuses on the short term speed rather than long term. I was lied to multiple time by management. I was told my rating depended on the reviews from my peers, but then when the perf came, I realized it is 100% up to the manager regardless of what your peers say. My manager told me constantly I was doing great, then perf came and because I questioned the principles, I had a bad rating. The 360 was useless, management can use if they want to promote you, but if you are not in great terms with your manager, the 360 will be ignored. I was also told multiple times, the company is impact-based and that what matters is impact. After working on a project with another manager, I was told I could not get any credit, since it was not 100% my idea.

Product teams are not in sent it to build quality products – it’s all about shipping every six months to meet your performance scores. Feels like engineering and product managers just want to ship a minimally viable ads product that will meet their performance goals. Incentive changes need to come top down to change this culture that is incredibly frustrating and unfair to our clients. Overall makes it very hard for sales and other go to market teams since we are test with driving adoption and growth for crappy products. Also every product team just ships their feature or product but there is very little thought put into the platform overall and making sure it’s user-friendly, good design etc. we shouldn’t build products as a multibillion dollar company the same as we built as a startup