Pros: HR is really nice. Corporate housing.

Cons: Salary is lower than SWE.

Pros: Great management/leadership. Office benefits are amazing.

Cons: None that I can think of yet!

Pros: Nice people, some autonomy for contractors. Looks good on a CV. Workload is okay, though one can get very lucky or unlucky. Some people are drowning in work while others are doing nigh nothing. The KX (King's Cross) office is nice.

Cons: Most DEs are in product-specific teams, which very specifically drives what needs doing. There is no movement likely within the company for contractors (likely, as the only time I heard that happen was during reorgs when people were forced to move around. This, of course, doesn't apply to permies; their situation is different.) Actually, a lot (read: almost all) of the tech Meta uses is either in-house or a customized version of in-house. For example, they use a custom version of Airflow and an older version of Presto, whereas the rest of the tools are almost exclusive to Meta only. This makes some of the knowledge more difficult to transfer, and for contractors, it makes it more complicated to put relevant tech on their CVs. Most DEs are glorified BI developers. There is relatively little data engineering going on for most DEs, and it's more about building visualizations and some pipelines feeding into those. Lower/immediate management is nice, but middle/upper management doesn't really give a fig about almost anything apart from their own KPIs.