Great Pay, Smart People, Horrible Company Culture
Great Pay, Smart People, Horrible Company Culture
Pay and benefits are excellent. The company is full of very smart people.
Even as a non-senior engineer, politics are impossible to avoid. You may not even realize you're wrapped up in them because they happen so far above you.
You will have to constantly chase "impact," which may be difficult to quantify depending on your team and function.
Lower-level team culture is good, but the company "values" are a farce and non-existent.
Do not speak up against changes within the company. You will be retaliated against, and Meta will mask retaliation as layoffs or performance-based attrition.
The disconnect between upper and lower management causes layoffs and inefficiency.
Upper management seems quite out of touch with reality.
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Software Engineer (IC4)
The interview process covers classic LeetCode problems, system design, and behavioral questions. It's quite easy to master with some practice, as the questions tend to be repetitive. After passing the interviews, the recruiters were incredibly rude.
Senior Software Engineer
Interviewers often have poker faces; I think that’s in their instructions, so don’t get thrown off by that. LeetCode questions weren't super hard. The system design question went by very fast. Make sure you think and work fast because you'll really
Data Engineer Intern
The process was pretty smooth and a good experience. There were several rounds, but the whole process was pretty long, lasting about 4 months. I did not make it to the final round, though.
Software Engineer (IC4)
FranceJuly 10, 2024The interview process covers classic LeetCode problems, system design, and behavioral questions. It's quite easy to master with some practice, as the questions tend to be repetitive. After passing the interviews, the recruiters were incredibly rude.
Senior Software Engineer
Burlingame, California, United StatesJuly 1, 2025Interviewers often have poker faces; I think that’s in their instructions, so don’t get thrown off by that. LeetCode questions weren't super hard. The system design question went by very fast. Make sure you think and work fast because you'll really
Data Engineer Intern
United StatesNovember 22, 2025The process was pretty smooth and a good experience. There were several rounds, but the whole process was pretty long, lasting about 4 months. I did not make it to the final round, though.
