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Toxic Culture, Great Pay

Machine Learning Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Meta for 2 years
June 26, 2023
London, England
2.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Best pay and benefits you can get in the UK tech sector from mid to senior IC positions.

Cons

The performance review tends to set employees against each other. Although it's not everywhere, as some teams manage to create great collectives, the status quo always degenerates into a rat race where you do not know whether your colleagues are peers or competitors. It's very toxic.

There is no accountability from leadership. From mid to C-Level, they cannot figure out a proper strategy, avoid making decisions, and then blame ICs for poor performance. (Heard of the year of efficiency, increased intensity, yeah, all that.)

The company is the most US-centric, which treats London like a dumpster for projects Americans do not want to do and takes away successful projects created here.

The tech stack is all internal, so it can set your career back in certain domains like data and ML.

Advice to Management

I think they would not care. There is too much hubris and entitlement there.

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