Meta reviews

3.5

53% would recommend to a friend

(18,107 total reviews)
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43% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Meta has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 18,107 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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4.0
Oct 27, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

For those that appreciate a bottom-up engineering culture, this place is great. People throw together ("hack") prototypes, and the most successful ones win. Everything is about the results. Things like documentation and reliability, which some engineers bristle against, are secondary. Bureaucracy is nonexistent.

Cons

Engineers who prefer a more "design first" style will find it infuriating. The "don't talk to me unless you've got a prototype in hand" culture can feel like it's stifling ideas (even though it's a very reasonable reaction against pie-in-the-sky proposals). Proper architecture and code quality can be big problems. There's a strong emphasis on social networking as a means of getting things done. For introverts this can be unduly difficult, and even for extroverts it can come across as a triumph of personality and schmoozing over sound engineering principles. There is a strong emphasis on trying to fabricate relationships in order to have impact, which can feel extremely deceitful.

1.0
Sep 27, 2020

Toxic, unethical and likely not going to change

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Lots of creative autonomy and independence. Since the "management" literally doesn't do anything, you get to be your own boss which is in a way a good learning experience, provided you work hard.

Cons

Inexplicably incompetent, unethical and borderline criminal management.

2.0
Aug 17, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly people, friendly managers. Amazing company and products. Excited to be part of such an amazing organization. Friendly work culture and collaboration environment. Very good infrastructure and tooling. Great perks. Good upper management.

Cons

Competitive, stressful and high pressure working environment. Subpar communication. Bottom up management is challenging. Middle level program and project management totally lacking. Communication in a COVID-19 WFH environment challenging when the work culture historically was office based. Instability is normal: releasing to production and taking risks is actively encouraged. The codebase is in places low quality. The majority of the documentation is outdated and therefore unusable. High turnover of staff means little continuity; the only people who stay long enough usually end up so stressed that you have to deal with people barely being able to function due to burnout.

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