Is Meta a good company to work for as a Softwarea Engineer?

Softwarea Engineer professionals working at Meta have rated their employer with 3.4 out of 5 stars in 3,811 Glassdoor reviews. This is a lower than average score with the overall rating of Meta employees being 3.5 out of 5 stars. Search open Softwarea Engineer Jobs at Meta now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Softwarea Engineer interview questions at Meta .

Does Meta pay Softwarea Engineer employees well?

Softwarea Engineer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Meta with 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 3,811 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 2.2% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Softwarea Engineer salaries at Meta.

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What are the pros of working at Meta according to real employee reviews?

"The company has great benefits and really makes sure you and your family have everything you need." ((in 2382 reviews)); "The people are great and you won’t see any of the same perks at other companies." ((in 2016 reviews)); "I think that some of the pros are the that it has a good pay and is in a nice place like california" ((in 1483 reviews)); "1) Work with the best 2) Always get challenged but in a positive way 3) Caring environment 4) good salary" ((in 706 reviews)); "Free food and Life@ expenses are nice" ((in 661 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Meta according to real employee reviews?

"Well know is the bad work life balance with MPK (USA) still holding the string late hours are common and needed to get on." ((in 1035 reviews)); "PSC (Performance Summary Cycle) is pretty intense and there are frequent layoffs which mostly has nothing to do with your performance" ((in 824 reviews)); "1. Can be super stressful 2. Bad manager can ruin your life 3. Efforts are not praised or counted 4. Code output doesn't matter" ((in 397 reviews)); "Politics and poor leadership in the mid" ((in 371 reviews)); "many employers are very invested in their work and spend long hours; as a result it can be easy to let work/life balance slip" ((in 219 reviews))

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3.4

45% would recommend to a friend

(3,811 total reviews)

Mark Zuckerberg

38% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.6

Compensation and benefits

3.9

Career opportunities

3.4

Diversity & inclusion

2.7

Culture & values

2.6

Senior management

2.5

Work/Life balance

Softwaree Engineer employees have rated Meta with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 3,811 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Softwaree Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Meta is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Softwaree Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0

Jul 12, 2026

Good pay and interesting work, but stressful politics

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay interesting problems and the ability to be remote.

Cons

Stressful work environment with a high amount of political discourse between teams doing the same thing.

4.0

Jul 11, 2026

Challenging work with smart colleagues, expect chaos

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Hard challenging, smart people, a lot of autonomy.

Cons

Must be comfortable with chaos

1.0

Jul 10, 2026

Toxic environment with clueless leadership and politics

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

None that I can think of. Full of politics at this point. If you know to play the PSC game and are a bad engineer meta is the place for you.

Cons

There is a long list - 1. Full of politics 2. Short term display of work(not actual work) gets rewarded in the name of impact. 3. They genuinely just have 3 apps that are cash and rest is all empire building. 4. Leadership is clueless and lack human empathy. 5. Backstabbing and putting others down is promoted. 6. You will get to work ego driven poor engineers

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