Meta

Perks and pay are top-notch. Some of the engineers are truly talented.

As the title says, FB is not for everybody, in my opinion.

The recent set of 1-star ratings list pretty much all the things that made me leave:

• Questionable work-life balance
• No planning/structure
• Arrogant/ignorant coworkers
• Every person for themselves
• Cliques
• Political environment
• Inept managers
• Poor communication/rumor mill/back-stabbing
• No teamwork
• Management by attention-deficit disorder

The work-life-balance issue goes beyond the mere hours. It is expected that you become FB friends with all your coworkers, managers, etc.

FB makes it impossible for the realm of your private life to remain separate from your workplace and coworkers.

This wasn't working for me, but I recognize that for others this isn't an issue.

It seemed to me that much that is broken at FB is perpetuated by the in-clique, and in fact gets sold as the great achievements of FB's unique culture.

Do what every other successful company your size does: train your managers so they can:

• Create teams that work together on common goals.
• Foster good communication.
• Help their team plan and be successful.

You're holding on to ideas that may have worked when you were a start-up (no code ownership, no planning, documentation?, tests?). Your so-called culture is a liability, especially if you let incompetent managers corrupt it to the opposite of the values you want to stand for.