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Career Prospects Vs. Superficial Culture

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Meta for 2 years
February 3, 2023
Menlo Park, California
3.0
Doesn't Recommend
Pros
  1. Perceived career opportunities
  2. Socialization
Cons
  1. Comments on internal workplace are more important than actual work, sort of like Instagram pictures of influencers who can spin off a cool image, but there's nothing real behind it.

  2. Management is very young. Instead of trying to solve actual problems in the team, they defer it to HR. If someone complains to HR, no one even checks if it was true or not. Even though a person is an excellent engineer, complaints can devoid that person of promotion.

Advice to Management

If there's a conflict, there's a problem. Pretending like conflict doesn't exist will make the problem bigger, until it blows.

Making people managers when they are 25 is not good, since those people didn't live through conflicts, didn't solve any conflicts, and have no actual ability to manage, except for adhering to guidelines. Machines can follow guidelines, but we need humans who can take people's feelings into consideration.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
5.0
Culture and Values
1.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
4.0
Career Opportunities
4.0
Compensation and Benefits
4.0
Senior Management
3.0

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