Meta reviews

I have enjoyed working at Facebook but as a POC, I do feel that the lack of diversity has affected the quality of work we do, and diluted the creative culture at Fb. Creative teams across the company are very white, and mostly male. While I'm excited to see more roles open up in Facebook for creatives, I worry that it affords teams and management opportunities to hire more white people. Instead of bringing in someone with a different experience that is talented and deserving of an opportunity. Sadly, I've seen BIPOC candidates get shortlisted, only to not make the cut for arbitrary reasons. 'Not a good fit' is a poor reason for someone who spent the time interviewing with us with a stella portfolio. I worry that teams are only bringing in certain candidates to meet some sort of quota or to appear "exhaustive" in their search, just so that they can hire another white person. I'm tried of observing these performative acts of diversity from creative leaders across teams and hope that this changes. We can do better, we should do better.

The biannual review cycle and the focus on "impact" makes an endless treadmill of overworking to make sure you get a good review. The company is very unprofessional in its working style where there is little teamwork and many people who try to dump the hard work on you while they chase revenue gains for the review cycle. There is no real career progression and management will do musical chairs and swap your role. I only got to do what I thought I was hired for 18 months. The senior management are very disingenuous when it comes to being neutral in politics and supporting BLM. They keep leaning to support Trump but then acting shocked when the company gets caled out for it.