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Money vs Mental Health Trade off

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Meta for 4 years
January 24, 2025
London, England
3.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

• Very challenging environment.

• Career Growth: People will push you significantly beyond your comfort zone, which will foster your career growth.

• Great salary: They pay you well anyway. But if you perform greatly, they pay you even better.

Cons

PSC-driven culture. People work for PSC; their actions are governed by PSC. People don’t talk about long-term vision; everything is about how to get things done, which can be shown in PSC.

Because of relative evaluation and constant fire & hire, the company pushes people to work even harder to deliver results. As a result, people just do whatever it takes to get results, leading to a complex, incoherent system that makes it harder to work on every day.

But people keep pushing their working hours every year to allow the same output. The company knows people will work harder every year for the amount of money they give, so it’s working for the company.

Advice to Management

Have a long term sustainable way to improve engineering and work on actual engineering efficiency peojects rather than just somethings which makes it easier to justify metrics

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Additional Ratings

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

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