Meta Software Developer reviews

3.6

52% would recommend to a friend

(3,243 total reviews)
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Mark Zuckerberg

44% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Meta with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,243 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Meta is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Mar 23, 2026
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Pros

nice pay big tech comforts like microkitchens and free breakfast/lunch $2000 health and wellness grant is p sick actually

Cons

where to begin... - had no choice which team i was placed in. eventually got forced into a position i didn't want and worked on products i dont care about - management and lead unironically tell you to "ask claude" 99% of the time when you're stuck instead of giving you concrete advice - company maintains a dashboard of employee-level metrics every half tracking your commit count, lines of code pushed, etc. even if you meet all your project requirements, if you don't meet arbitrary lines of code target you can kiss your job goodbye - if you hate AI slop you will see it everywhere here - ever present threat of layoff

2.0
Mar 23, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- strong brand name on resume - decent pay

Cons

- constant thrash - comp hasn't kept pace with other competitors - bad wlb - robotic coworkers

4.0
Mar 23, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great work life balance, lots of mentorship and learning, cutting edge work, fast career growth, not too much hierarchy, culture of helping each other and collaboration

Cons

Lots of empire building, increasingly worse politics and reliability issues, people are laser focused on their promotions and not getting fired which erodes culture of learning and collaboration, every year they cut our pay and benefits, very team dependent. I’m incredibly lucky with my team but majority of teams here are toxic and bad and it’s hard to know how your experience will be. Try to stay in infra, and as deep in the stack as you can. Don’t work directly for MSL it’s an absolute shitshow. Don’t work for AI/ML infra or fb or instagram (any product roles/product infra). They’re the first to get hit by layoffs and they also have horrible leadership that whips people like slaves, lots of busywork and little credit, everyone is cut throat and fending for themselves

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