Meta reviews

3.5

53% would recommend to a friend

(18,111 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 18,111 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Jan 18, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Great food, amazing vacation policy (21 days), great maternity and paternity leave policy, great campus. You have all you can imagine, access to shuttles, on-site dentist, paid laundry services, sweet shop. The tools, infrastructure and stack let's you be very productive. For instance, setting up a website where someone can input data on a form and storing the data in a DB takes minutes. An experience at this company will open many many doors for you, it will be much easier to get phone interviews. You will also learn a lot.

Cons

The culture is pretty bad and the performance review system is a joke. Unless you abide 100% by their culture, you can't be happy. This means you are not allowed to even question their principles. If you think something needs to be fixed at the root cause, you are in trouble, because you need to Move Fast! The company over-focuses on the short term speed rather than long term. I was lied to multiple time by management. I was told my rating depended on the reviews from my peers, but then when the perf came, I realized it is 100% up to the manager regardless of what your peers say. My manager told me constantly I was doing great, then perf came and because I questioned the principles, I had a bad rating. The 360 was useless, management can use if they want to promote you, but if you are not in great terms with your manager, the 360 will be ignored. I was also told multiple times, the company is impact-based and that what matters is impact. After working on a project with another manager, I was told I could not get any credit, since it was not 100% my idea.

4.0
Nov 24, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Truly love the people I work with Dash by far the best job I’ve had in my career. You can always expect people are incredibly smart, competent and for the most part nice. Director and up can get very political and Game of Thrones-esque Perks are truly amazing and the company genuinely cares for its employees and their well-being. Senior leader ship at least gives everybody the forum to talk about their problems and points of view. For good or bad you are working in teams with massive impact

Cons

Product teams are not in sent it to build quality products – it’s all about shipping every six months to meet your performance scores. Feels like engineering and product managers just want to ship a minimally viable ads product that will meet their performance goals. Incentive changes need to come top down to change this culture that is incredibly frustrating and unfair to our clients. Overall makes it very hard for sales and other go to market teams since we are test with driving adoption and growth for crappy products. Also every product team just ships their feature or product but there is very little thought put into the platform overall and making sure it’s user-friendly, good design etc. we shouldn’t build products as a multibillion dollar company the same as we built as a startup

2.0
Aug 15, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free food, first class flights to the US, free gadgets and lots and lots of swag. Very complex and difficult problems to solve (mainly self inflicted due to the lack of good endineering practices).

Cons

My experience is in the enterprise engineering org. * Very individualistic mindset, team is only the logo on the swag you get. * Several years of unattended spaghetti engineering that nobody dares to handle, but someone has to maintain (and get burnt doing so). * Awful oncalls due to the horrible engineering practices and mountains of tech debt. * Blame showers during incident reviews (and incident triaging). * Over the fence handovers. Fake promises by recruiters, lack of leadership. * Walls between orgs for transfers and artificial, per-org devopment limitations. It's better to leave and reinterview with a chance of getting better offer than trying to move internally (and still going through the interviews) and getting your level frozen for a year. There's some efforts to improve engineering practices, but get smudged and diluted by the lack of will and understanding from the leadership, and the lack of reward from the global org (doing two really crappy things gives you more performance review points than doing something with high quality, and/or refactoring any amount of the crappy things around).

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