Meta Software Developer reviews

3.5

46% would recommend to a friend

(3,301 total reviews)
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38% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Meta with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,301 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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5.0
Oct 16, 2019

IC4

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great benefits - Excellent culture

Cons

- High housing prices in the area

3.0
Oct 5, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Free food - Reasonable pay - Party budget - 25 quids per person, you can use it freely - Travel with business class - Health, Dental, Life insurance - You can work on difficult problems with very high impact - You touching things used by you and plenty of people on earth. - You can meet Mark

Cons

- Around half of management is not capable to point any of their failures or if they do then the failures is caused not because of their mistake. - Common parent-child relationships, causing top to down direction. - Independence is when you can replicate your manager in 100% same way and not when you can accomplish your targets with no supervision in any legit way - No tolerance for making any mistakes. You can get constant punishment if you do not do things *exactly* according to your tech lead/manager’s idea. - Big percentage of people who like talking about themselves. - Too much focus on impact. Ignoring people relations and good engineering. This constantly bring problems which could be avoided. But then managers are happy, because they subordinates have more problems, so they can have more impact.

2.0
Oct 5, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lot of perks that a fresh grad would care for. Food is awesome. Good medical and 401k benefits, may be bit better than most companies. Fast promotion if you can work long hours. Fast paced environment, you'll get to learn new stuff all the time. Lot of smart engineers around.

Cons

With fast promotion comes fast firing. It's up or out policy up to a certain level. Not a good place for senior engineers joining. Too much stress in the team driven by performance reviews, which is the most aggressive that I've ever known. Emphasis is on individual impact, due to which there's lot of distrust within the team. No stack ranking, but a curve is implemented a org level. This is not a big deal in other companies but here it means 'out'. Managers main job is to write performance reviews, and this often leads to micro management that can be extremely frustrating to senior engineers. There's lot of work duplication, most managers (even directors) ignore it as performance reviews is all about impact. Most engineers know that everyone wants to write code and make impact, so ignore the code duplication. Some teams are hiring just for the head count, not much impactful work. This becomes a problem for senior engineers as they have to invent work or get out. Before joining a team check out their roadmap for at least a year. This is a good place if you want make money at the cost of WLB. Not a place to be innovative, which inherently carries risk and takes time. It's a risk because if there's no impact you'll be fired. Most of the engineers work to satisfy performance reviews. My work is determined keeping performance review as the guideline. But company will be fine, lot of good engineers capable of quickly delivering a fix or hack a feature.

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