Meta Software Developer reviews

3.5

46% would recommend to a friend

(3,320 total reviews)
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38% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Meta with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,320 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Meta is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Aug 18, 2018

Software Engineer

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Pros

Great perks, awesome people to work with. You get an iphone/samsung of your choice, no limit on data/roaming, if anything is wrong with it you get a new one no questions asked. Same for your laptop. International travel is unlimited and at your own discretion, as long as there's a valid business porpuse obviously. You fly Business when it's a long enough flight, so some people take connection flight to qualify. Free food and snacks, lots of options, virtually unlimited budgets for team get-togethers, etc. Pay and comp are on the highest standards in the industry.

Cons

High pressure. People get fired if they under perform, and under perform may not be what you expect it to be. Employee evaluation is mainly "impact" based - meaning you have to show measureable product impact every half. This creates insensitives for people to produce low quality code, and under-maintaining it, since you are better off solving 90% of the problem and say you're done without covering edge cases. This also pressures people to work alone on highly measureable projects and not share the credit for larger projects. in the year and a half I've been with the company, I've seen 4 people fired in a 30~ person team, plus two more quit ahead of being fired. On other teams, however, I've seen people rest-and-vest for years, so it's probably very dependent on the team and managers.

5.0
Jul 10, 2018

Great place to work

Recommend
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Pros

- Very open culture, everyone has access to all codebases and can change any code - Most people choose their own project - You are responsible for your project end -to-end. Only metric you are measured on is impact. - Company really cares about its employees

Cons

- Very fast paced environment - Everyone has to act as the leader of their project, not a good fit if you like someone to tell you what you should do.

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