Meta reviews

3.5

53% would recommend to a friend

(18,102 total reviews)
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Mark Zuckerberg

43% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Meta has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 18,102 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 Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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18K reviews
2.0
Apr 12, 2015

Not for Everyone

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Perks & pay are top notch. Some of the engineers are truly talented.

Cons

As the title says, FB is not for everybody IMO. The recent set of 1-star ratings list pretty much all the things that made me leave: questionable work-life-balance, no planning/structure, arrogant/ignorant coworkers, every man for himself/every woman for herself, cliques, political, inept managers, poor communication/rumor mill/back-stabbing, no teamwork, management by attention-deficit disorder. The work-life-balance issue goes beyond the mere hours: it is expected that you become FB friends with all your coworkers, managers, etc. FB makes it impossible for the realm of your private life to remain separate from your workplace and coworkers. This wasn't working for me, but I recognize that for others this isn't an issue. It seemed to me that much that is broken at FB is perpetuated by the in-clique and in fact gets sold as the great achievements of FB's unique culture.

1.0
Sep 1, 2018
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Pays the checks, free transportation and food

Cons

If you are a minority management will isolate you. Facebook pretends to care and provides training to 'fix' minority attitude. As a non-minority I find this disgraceful. Facebook does not value diverse views and tries to 'manage out' non-conformists.

2.0
Jan 7, 2018
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great physical working environment Energy Strong aspects of the culture Openness of Mark Zuckerburg

Cons

Incorrect understanding and execution of the company values: Value: Done is better than perfect - the incorrect interpretation is that done and perfect are mutually exclusive, no-one wants to do anything that is perfect. Value: We [managers / leaders] are non-directive - incorrect interpretation is that managers do not need to provide direction, the result is that manager are ineffective and simply try to please employees. Value: Make an impact - incorrect interpretation is any impact is a good impact, the actual impact of this is that there is little significant impact. The company has many conflicting ways of working, for example the short term review process and the want and need to take risks and innovate. The result is that employees do not want to take long term risks as they will be penalised in their next review. There is a PIP (personal improvement plan) process to help those underachieving to get back on track. This is only effective at removing people from the company and during new manager training (FME) managers are informed that most people (>80%) that are placed on a PIP leave the company. At the same time the company prides itself on the ability of employees to have tough conversations (Crucial Conversations is a class employees are encouraged to attend) yet no-one has these tough conversations. There is a reliance on processes such as the PIP process to remove people from the company rather than having direct conversations.

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