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A mixed bag

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Meta for 4 years
June 13, 2025
New York, New York
3.0
RecommendsPositive Outlook
Pros
  • Incredible compensation.
  • Some incredibly smart and hardworking coworkers you learn a lot from.
  • Learn how to frame your business impact.
  • You get good at alignment and communication because you work with so many people.
  • Very fast career growth is possible, like E3 to E5 in 2 years.
  • Learn to work in high pressure.
Cons
  • You spend more time thinking about how to prove and document your impact than actually doing things.
  • PSC is gamified; you do fake things that sound good on PSC but are actually very useless.
  • Scope fighting depending on team.
  • Very stressful at times.
  • Experience is very team/manager dependent.
  • Work is often not very technically challenging nor transferable.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
3.0
Culture and Values
2.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
3.0
Career Opportunities
4.0
Compensation and Benefits
5.0
Senior Management
3.0

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