Meta reviews

3.5

53% would recommend to a friend

(18,059 total reviews)
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Mark Zuckerberg

43% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Meta has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 18,059 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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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18K reviews
4.0
Nov 19, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There is little friction between developing product improvements and shipping them. Engineers are generally given lots of authority to figure out the right thing to do and just do it. When people come from other companies they are often shocked by this, but even as the company has grown there are still very few gatekeepers between an engineer and getting their code into production.

Cons

Lots of the internal systems can be flaky. Scale is more important than reliability or consistency in some cases, which makes building reliable apps frustrating.

5.0
Nov 19, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Fantastic culture: FB is moving fast so there are lots of opportunities to work on interesting projects. - Impact: you get to work on projects that affect millions of people every day! It's hugely rewarding! - Great facilties. Facebook is a fun place to work with a great work environment. This starts with having top-notch screens to nicely designed break out areas. - loads of benefits, e.g. health care, free food - loads of opportunities to grow within the company. Facebook is still small, so there is always a career path that will enable you to grow into a management role or into a highly impactful individual role! - lots of travel if you're up for it - Learn: Facebook has a great team that focusses on providing you with training around communication, presentation, time keeping, management skills. Whatever you are interested in!

Cons

- work load is high so good project/time management skills are a plus!

5.0
Nov 19, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Despite having several thousand employees, you can still have an impact, and it doesn't have to be "wrote the messaging system", it can be as simple as "made something more efficient, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars over a year", or "enabling someone else to be a rock star". There are great challenges in the infrastructure, and it's a first-hand experience of (at the heart) simple systems interacting in complex ways. Lovely food from the on-campus cafe (really and truly I'd call it a restaurant, the food is that good), break out areas for peace and quiet, and generally excellent and smart co-workers.

Cons

Long days mostly, and the communication lag with HQ. It's possible to get sucked down a rabbit hole for days on end, sinking in far too many hours. However, in the end, it's a personal choice to do hours and hours of work beyond what you're salaried for. The 8 hour lag with California is also a pain in the rear - you either live with 24 hour turnaround on question/answer threads, or you stay late to try and catch someone in real time.

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