So glad that I worked there and so glad that I left
So glad that I worked there and so glad that I left
Meta was an amazing place to work. I learned a tremendous amount and was treated incredibly well. My coworkers were all incredibly smart, and many of them were cool.
Although Meta has a reputation for being toxic, and I think that reputation may now be true, it was a very supportive environment while I was there.
- Pay
- Work environment
- Satisfaction in what is possible to achieve
- Amazingly smart coworkers
- Your mental health will suffer
- You need to be prepared to make work the absolute focus of your life
- Stress
They've made their decisions for the reasons that they made them. 'Nuff said.
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New York, New York, United StatesFebruary 1, 2020A very long and grueling process. They literally give you PDFs of material to study for your interviews. You are expected to complete five one-hour interviews in a single day, solving programming challenges nonstop the entire time. You get a lunch b
