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Coming up on a year employed, and I'm finally getting my sea legs.

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Meta for 1 year
October 20, 2016
Seattle, Washington
5.0
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Pros

Incredible group of talented, creative, and motivated people. A company with a vision and a set of products that you can get behind -- morally and technically. Plentiful opportunities for advancement. Creativity is very highly appreciated.

Cons

Sometimes Facebook feels like barely organized chaos, but it somehow works! A huge part of the culture is bottom-up; the day-to-day, week-to-week direction really does flow from the employees much more than the management.

It took a while to get used to the open spaces and the diverse campus locations, but I'm used to it now (a year in), and again, it doesn't really get in the way that much.

Advice to Management

Provide more transparency in terms of vision.

Let people know what is going on in your heads more often. The town halls are great, but I'm talking about VPs and directors, and not just within their own orgs. Short posts, without lots of wordsmithing. Keep the ICs in the loop in your visions!

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