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Software Engineering, Product Management

Program Management and Analysis, Software Engineering
Current Employee
Has worked at Meta for 4 years
July 4, 2017
Toronto, Ontario
5.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

It's used to gain knowledge.

They have free meals three times a day and snacks, which is good.

There is four months of paternity and maternity leave that you can distribute over the first year after having the child.

It's opt-in health insurance, so it's not really a benefit. They just enjoy group discounts on insurance because they have a million...

Cons

The worst thing about working at Facebook for me has been on-call duty. Most engineering teams run complex, frequently modified software in production. Since things have a way of going wrong, teams have a rotating responsibility for responding to unanticipated emergencies.

Since these can happen any time, day or night, and are of unknowable scope and severity, being on-call is a serious responsibility; many millions of users are affected every minute the site is broken.

Advice to Management

Check Your Wall-posting Preferences

Use Insights to Determine What’s Working for Your Page

Assign Admin Roles

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