- The open floor plan can be completely draining (especially for introverts, like myself).
- Very unclear career growth. I started as an early career employee and one of the main reasons I left was because I felt like there was really little investment in my professional and personal growth. I found that Facebook really likes employees that will work hard and make them look good, but they don't care about helping you move up to the next level. There was no clear progression. A part of this is the flat organizational structure, which appeals to some but not to all.
- Very millennial feeling (I'm a millennial too) and can feel extremely unprofessional at times. No line between personal and professional relationships. Again, this is up to personal choice but it didn't feel great to me all the time.
- Cult-like worship of upper management (Mark and Sheryl). They are awesome people to look up to but people are not critical enough of the company all the time. It felt like people were always blind-sided by the flashiness of M-team's messaging.
- Facebook hires a lot of contractors to full-time positions (especially in Austin), which can feel irksome.
- Since the company has grown so much, they need to stop acting like a startup.
- It's easy to do work that isn't actually fulfilling but is necessary to run the company.
- Loved the mission and messaging of the company but didn't feel like my work was impactful in any way, which was an unfortunate feeling.
- Pay is not that good for entry level/early career business side roles. Engineers make a lot more, unsurprisingly.
- This is an engineer-run company, after all. So if you are on the business side, expect to be heavily reliant on engineering resources, which can be extremely draining and frustrating.
- Facebook says it's easy to transition between roles and teams but I found that to not be true. That's another reason why I left. It may be easier on the engineering side. Additionally, being a remote office truly limits your networking and career opportunities (even if they tell you otherwise).
- I had more managers than I could count in one year. The turnover was way too high and I didn't feel like anyone was invested in me. I wasn't growing and as an early career professional, growth is my top priority.
- Facebook is a global company and most of its users are outside of the US. However, the mindset is still extremely American and I frankly found the way in which people talked about users outside of the US to be downright offensive at times. There was no desire to get to deeply understand user behavior and market trends outside of the US. Given how the world economy is trending, Facebook will be in a bad position if employee mindsets don't change. There are companies all over the world (especially in Asia) that are taking over (and have already taken over) the spaces Facebook is trying to break into as of late.
- A combination of unclear expectations and high manager turnover led to not-stellar performance reviews for me.
- People always said I could work on what interested me and what I was good at but whenever I tried to do so, I was shut down.
