Pros: Once you figure out the culture, it’s very easy to get things done at Meta. While middle management is very fear-driven and incremental in their explicit direction, they will never punish you for making them look good in a way they didn’t mandate. Figure out what the business actually needs, go do it, and get rewarded.

Cons: Product engineers can’t plan anything, especially multi-half work. It’s a sad sight.

Pros: Excellent compensation and benefits. Takes really good care of its people, from excellent free food to subsidized laundry. Lots of unique engineering scale challenges. Engineers have a lot of autonomy and decision power. Variety of different areas and expanding options in every office. Fairly easy to switch teams and even offices or geographical locations. Great dev infra. Most menial jobs are automated. Fast-paced and growing – lots of opportunities for career growth. Still kept some good things about startup culture, like focusing on what matters.

Cons: It's becoming more corporate with growth - harder to find opportunities that really move the needle, getting more political, more processes, etc. With size, discrepancy in culture between orgs is growing. If you land on a bad position, it may be harder to switch. After a negative media cycle on social media, it isn't attracting the same passionate people as before. Your friends and even random people will want to tell you how they feel about social media. Some will even blame you for Trump. The culture of "move fast" and "focus on impact" is taken to the extreme in some orgs, which causes lots of incidents, unnecessary stress, and a terrible codebase.

Pros: Great compensation, good reputation, free food and snacks.

Cons: Too much pressure, hard to maintain work-life balance, lots of competition, some politics.