Meta Software Developer reviews

3.5

47% would recommend to a friend

(3,303 total reviews)
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Mark Zuckerberg

39% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Meta with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,303 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 Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
4.0
Apr 18, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- Smart, hardworking people - Great internal tools and tech - You get a lot of freedom as an employee, and your ideas are valued by your manager and your peers if they are good. - Great perks - Free food - Great cafeteria and decent selection of snacks and drinks at the micro-kitchen, plus two bars :) - Decent gym allowance

Cons

- No work life balance. To be fair, a fair number of people at FB work 40 hour weeks and are pretty successful, but it's not uncommon for people to work 10 hours a day or more, or work on a weekend because they are overloaded with work to do. A lot of people (including me) don't have any friends outside of work. - The whole "We're changing the world" thing starts to get old after a while.

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Meta Response
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It’s great to hear that people feel like they’re getting a lot of freedom and that their ideas are valued by managers and peers. On work/life integration, there are certainly times when people are working harder against a deadline or because something is time-sensitive. This shouldn’t be the normal state, though. It might be worth talking to your manager about it. Also, we have a lot of people who have just moved to one of our offices to work at Facebook, or who haven’t had a chance to develop new friendships along the way. To help connect people with others who might have similar interests, we introduced Clubs@Facebook a couple of years ago. They’re pretty robust now, and a lot of people have used the clubs to jumpstart friendships and to help build a social life with colleagues that extends beyond Facebook. In fact, more than half our people belong to one or more clubs. You can find more information about the clubs on our internal WIKI at: Life@Clubs —Your Friends at Facebook
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.

5.0
Apr 9, 2015

Software Engineer

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Very good culture and very good benefit.

Cons

A little bit of working overtime

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