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Senior Data Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Meta for 2 years
March 15, 2024
London, England
4.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros
  • Smart people to work with.
  • Interesting projects.
  • Good pay.
  • Good benefits.
  • Significantly less politics than in lots of other corporations.
  • Great integration between systems.
Cons
  • Focus on quick and dirty solutions.
  • Sometimes it requires two weeks more to come up with something better.
  • Quite often bad design.
  • No incentives for the engineers or data engineers to upgrade design skills; more important is to deliver quickly.
  • Politics level increased since layoffs.
  • PSC style encourages individualism and not much teamwork.
  • Scope stealing.
  • Not great WLB.
Advice to Management

Focus on better design; it will save lots of operational cost.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
2.0
Culture and Values
3.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
4.0
Career Opportunities
5.0
Compensation and Benefits
5.0
Senior Management
3.0

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