2.0
Apr 26, 2014
Good company, too many failures, mostly boring work
Former employee, more than 3 years
Seattle, WA
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Pros
Facebook is used by everyone, and this is incredible. The Menlo Park campus is really cool and has a great vibe. - Great benefits - Smart people - Impact on millions of people
Cons
I joined Facebook a few years ago because of the agility of the engineering team. Back then, it was true. Today, not as much. - Most projects fail due to over-complication and over-engineering - Smart people are hampered by large inflexible codebase - Very hype-based culture (thing x is the new hotness, everyone on board!) - Most of the code is old and not owned by anyone, yet still in production - Most work is very mundane and not very exciting