Pros: Compensation is among the best in tech, including base, stock, and bonus, especially at senior levels. There is a strong engineering culture, high-caliber colleagues, and real technical challenges across scale, infra, and AI/ML. You can make a big impact because products touch billions of users, so your work is rarely trivial. There is good internal mobility across organizations such as Instagram, Reality Labs, AI, and core apps. The company has a structured career ladder with clear promotion criteria if you like clarity over ambiguity.

Cons: Performance culture is intense—stack-ranking style reviews, "Meta time" (long hours), and periodic layoffs have made job security feel shakier than it used to. Fast reorgs; teams and priorities can shift abruptly. Public scrutiny and reputation baggage, such as privacy, misinformation, and teen mental health lawsuits, can be demoralizing depending on your team. Return-to-office mandates have reduced flexibility compared to a few years ago. Reality Labs and metaverse bets have had mixed results, so some teams feel less stable than others.

Pros: Good pay and good holidays

Cons: Work is chaotic, work-life balance is non-existent, and leadership lacks direction and conviction. Especially as a contract worker or contingent worker, full-time employees will treat you in a dehumanizing way, and you're constantly worried about losing your job, even as a top performer.

Pros: - Compensation & Benefits - Great internal tools for productivity - Helpful internal community - Still quite a transparent culture, with an overload of information.

Cons: - Becoming very political, aligning with the right leader is key to growth and longevity. - Mid-level managers use internal posts as a measure of productivity, creating a popularity contest culture and a lot of posts about nothing. - Reorgs happen every ~6 months; learn to be fluid and live in constant change. - Cost-cutting is now a company focus. A lot of benefits have been cut or reduced.