Meta

Amazing coworkers: everyone is helpful, and people really focus on the mission. Unlike similar companies, leadership is open, and the higher up you go, the more helpful people become.

The company is quite large, but less bureaucratic than you’d expect. They very much want to enable you to do your best work.

The pay and benefits are at the very top of the industry. Only some fintechs and pre-IPO companies pay better. Very remote-friendly and offers a lot of flexibility.

Working from Europe, the hours are insane. It’s not that you have too much work (although sometimes that, too), but that everyone you work with gets up after 6 PM. I’m not sure what could be done to fix that, though, unless California people start getting up at 6 AM.

The constant changes of direction can be exhausting. I believe leadership that course-corrects is necessary, but it would be best if this stuff was done faster and with less disruption.

Not really a con for me, but this is definitely not the place to rest and vest. The upside is that you are not likely to have coworkers who are not pulling their weight, but it can be stressful, especially for junior people.

Keep the current culture, please. Google is a cautionary tale, not an example to follow. If we lose focus, we’re done.