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Facebook is very flexible. People are encouraged to work on things they are interested in, with the best support I've ever seen in the industry these years.

Facebook holds one of the best standards for its benefits – better than all companies of equivalent size.

People working here are just happier than the average industry level. Due to this reason, you would feel happier too.

Company momentum is just great, so this could potentially be a place where you can stay for a while.

Great engineers come from all other companies: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon. College new hires come from top ones: Stanford, MIT, Caltech, and more.

A good amount of people here are both smart and diligent; you have many to learn from.

Although coworkers are competitive here, they are much nicer to work with than other companies holding the same 'elite principles'. For example, I rarely see (though there are a few) arrogant people here. The whole culture was built in a way to favor people who are both smart and humble.

Culture encourages transparency, so you have to learn to hear and accept sometimes very tough feedback. But you could end up growing much faster, as you can tell.

If you are good, there is no barrier on what you can do. Facebook does not reveal your level to anyone else except your manager. So you could see E3 engineers work like E4 or even E5 in the end. But in another way, it could be tough for seniors.

Facebook sees deliveries (executions) as the first priority, so people here just focus on work more than others. I believe this is one of the biggest reasons why this company moves faster than other companies of equivalent size.

Most of the work at Facebook reaches a great amount of people (1.5 billion on web, 1.3 billion on mobile), and a great amount of revenue ($20 billion this year). So you can tell how much impact you can have, and this would at the minimum become a highlighting bullet point on your resume.

People say Facebook has bad work/life balance. I don't agree: 1) You have freedom to pick a laid-back team and are free to leave almost anytime (they have a hackathon program, and it is true). 2) Most of the time, I see hardworking people working hard due to their own choice.

People say Facebook has less politics, but I do feel some. It usually comes from a group of people joining the same team from the same company around the same time.

Culture encourages transparency, so if you're a smooth talker and avoid giving harsh feedback, this could become your problem in review.

In general, Facebook sees culture as a first priority in operations. I agree with this. However, it would be great to allow diversities in individuals on a small amount of points.