Pros: Fun company to work at, and the work is engaging.

Cons: Work-life balance can be improved.

Pros: This was my first job out of college and was instrumental in teaching me good software engineering practices, problem-solving, and seeing different ways different managers approached running teams. As it was a bigger company, some of my highlights were: * Onboarding "Bootcamp" process was great at helping find a team that was relevant to my interests. * All engineers were very competent, creating a great environment to learn and grow. * Meta's methodologies on measuring and improving were great fundamentals. * Teams were understanding and accommodating, offering a good combination of lifestyle and challenging work.

Cons: At times, knowing what expectations were for growth was unclear. You do have to manage up some to get a better idea.

Pros: Good salary and benefits. Relatively open culture, so you can see what's happening in other parts of the company and codebases. Ability to move fast with your projects.

Cons: The culture totally collapsed after the pandemic hiring spree and the layoffs. In most teams, you have to fight for scope (even as a junior) and justify your existence. You never get a break and are always getting judged. You can say something that is not actually bad, but another person will change the narrative to give you bad feedback and manage you out. It can also turn into always getting bad, contradictory feedback no matter what. Things like "you're not independent enough" if you ask something once. Everyone is extremely busy doing pointless, fake work to get points for their PSC (evaluation). There's no quality, not efficiency. Everything gets wasted because next half you stop supporting the project, or someone else rebuilds it from scratch because it was not good enough. This happens because you were actually just playing with the metrics. It's extremely stressful and not for the right reasons. It's psychological torture and gaslighting. There are good teams and good managers, but most teams are bad. Even if you find a good one, chances are you would get reorged, since reorgs happen insanely often and just for the sake of showing "impact". Many nonsensical decisions get approved just for the sake of someone's PSC (justify impact).