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High Pressure, High Reward Role

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Meta for 2 years
August 18, 2018
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Great perks, awesome people to work with.

You get an iPhone/Samsung of your choice, no limit on data/roaming. If anything is wrong with it, you get a new one, no questions asked. Same for your laptop.

International travel is unlimited and at your own discretion, as long as there's a valid business purpose, obviously. You fly Business when it's a long enough flight, so some people take connection flights to qualify.

Free food and snacks, lots of options, virtually unlimited budgets for team get-togethers, etc.

Pay and compensation are on the highest standards in the industry.

Cons

High pressure. People get fired if they underperform, and underperformance may not be what you expect.

Employee evaluation is mainly "impact"-based, meaning you have to show measurable product impact every half.

This creates incentives for people to produce low-quality code and under-maintain it, since you are better off solving 90% of the problem and saying you're done without covering edge cases.

This also pressures people to work alone on highly measurable projects and not share credit for larger projects.

In the year and a half I've been with the company, I've seen four people fired in a 30-person team, plus two more quit ahead of being fired. On other teams, however, I've seen people rest-and-vest for years, so it's probably very dependent on the team and managers.

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