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Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Meta for 1 year
January 21, 2013
Menlo Park, California
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Perks: free and delicious food, free other stuff, 21 days vacation, good for resume. Free schedule, nice office, gym onsite, etc.

Cons

They say they're chaotic. In my opinion, it's too fancy a word for that. I would say that the codebase is a mess. The corporate value "move fast and break things" is understood too literally by some engineers. That's why the product is very unstable and the UI, beyond the two most frequently used pages, is clunky. The job is boring. Things get done extremely slowly, and the quality is very far from perfect. There's too much narcissism (we're building an awesome product, we provide really sick user experience, we're ninjas, Batmans, and Supermans, etc., etc., etc.). Maybe it's good for some people, but not for me.

Advice to Management

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