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      Meta Sr. Software Engineer reviews

      3.2

      43% would recommend to a friend

      (463 total reviews)
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      Mark Zuckerberg

      40% approve of CEO

      53% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      2.7

      Senior management

      2.6

      Culture & values

      2.3

      Work/Life balance

      Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Meta with 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 463 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Meta is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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      463 reviews
      4.0
      Nov 13, 2012

      A powerful company, with lots of opportunities to make a difference.

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Many projects in many very different specialties. - Very good engineering level. - Fast moving, changing, adapting.

      Cons

      - Open space setup for all. It's loud, sometimes over packed (it's better now). I've never been as unproductive. - Changes are sometimes hard to track. - Your project might be "reformulated" along the way... - Very young. The least "social" of the places I've ever worked at.

      5.0
      Nov 13, 2012

      Great place to be an engineer

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Almost unbelievable autonomy and trust given to engineers; most projects bottom-up vs. top-down - Big, interesting projects are everywhere; if someone is bored at work, they're not trying very hard - Caliber of peers is extremely high - For the most part, rapid adoption (and often creation, e.g. a VM for PHP) of new technologies

      Cons

      - Many (though not all) engineers tend to work lots of hours, mostly because they just enjoy what they're doing. If this isn't necessarily your lifestyle, you may feel like you're not "keeping up". This is really all in the eye of the beholder, though, as there are many engineers who are very effective and productive and use that to work more limited hours so that they can enjoy family/non-work activities. - Most teams have rotating on-call rotations, wherein the engineer must be available to be paged 24h a day (typically for a period of a week) to respond to issues with their product or service. This is more of a burden for some teams than others (e.g. a core piece of infrastructure vs. a little-used feature). This isn't particularly fun. - Rapid pace of product change means it can be a challenging place to be in infrastructure. This isn't necessarily bad, but it does require a flexibility in planning and mindset, particularly if you come from a company where software releases are measured in months-years.

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