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You may think you can make it better, but you can't

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Meta for 1 year
June 7, 2023
2.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

They treated their employees really well (can't speak to post-layoffs though).

If you're a "heads down, I don't care what anyone else is doing, I only care about six-month goals" kind of person, you'll probably do fine.

It doesn't matter if what you did for six months doesn't actually move the overall project forward.

Cons

If you want to work well with other groups and build a big picture about future goals, if you want to make Meta a better place for the world, if you care about your users... you're doomed. You're just making it easier for them to do more damage before the regulators show up.

Advice to Management

Promotion based on extremely quantitative measures sounds good in theory – no bias! But it completely ignores the benefit a person provides to other groups indirectly. Nobody wants to work on internal support for other groups because you can't measure the impact directly and thus you won't get promoted. When everyone working on a major project that the company is investing billions in is saying, "Well, Mark says he doesn't care about X, but we know we'll actually have to do it," there's something seriously wrong with your company.

I'm giving one star on Diversity & Inclusion because, despite a major focus on it and lots of very positive things, the fact remains that Meta is quite happy to sacrifice trans users and employees in order to avoid rocking the political boat. Banning dead-naming is the price of entry here, and they refuse to pay it.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
2.0
Culture and Values
2.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
1.0
Career Opportunities
4.0
Compensation and Benefits
5.0
Senior Management
2.0

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