Meta

Compensation is among the best in tech, including base, stock, and bonus, especially at senior levels.

There is a strong engineering culture, high-caliber colleagues, and real technical challenges across scale, infra, and AI/ML.

You can make a big impact because products touch billions of users, so your work is rarely trivial.

There is good internal mobility across organizations such as Instagram, Reality Labs, AI, and core apps.

The company has a structured career ladder with clear promotion criteria if you like clarity over ambiguity.

Performance culture is intense—stack-ranking style reviews, "Meta time" (long hours), and periodic layoffs have made job security feel shakier than it used to. Fast reorgs; teams and priorities can shift abruptly.

Public scrutiny and reputation baggage, such as privacy, misinformation, and teen mental health lawsuits, can be demoralizing depending on your team. Return-to-office mandates have reduced flexibility compared to a few years ago. Reality Labs and metaverse bets have had mixed results, so some teams feel less stable than others.