Meta Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.2

39% would recommend to a friend

(473 total reviews)
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Mark Zuckerberg

31% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Meta with 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 473 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Meta is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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473 reviews
2.0
Nov 7, 2022
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

- Great engineers - Great benefits

Cons

- Useless leadership and managers - Bottom-up culture doesn't work well on the scale - Short-term thinking, buggy products, impact/metric driven incentives - Everyone thinks about ways to maximize their bonus rather than thinking about product quality - Engineers are mostly code monkeys. Not much opportunity for system design in scale. Everyone are supposed to product code, and every line is counted and impacts the reviews.

3.0
Nov 2, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You are dealing with massive scale, and it forces you to level up and think about really big problems.

Cons

The incentive structure is completely broken. When I first started I was shocked at how obsessed everyone was over their performance review. I thought it was temporary, but no, it's a non-stop thing. Everyone is trying to find a team with a manager that likes them that will help them get promoted. It's never about finding a project you are interested in working on. The managers are constantly hopping around to other teams because they are incentivized to have the most people underneath them. Engineers get "impact" by completing the following equation: I changed X by Y% which resulted in Z (user growth, time spent, etc). This means working on bigger projects with tougher to quantify impact is career suicide (no matter what they tell you otherwise). As a result the underlying infra of the apps is terrible and there's nobody that is really incentivized to fix it. There's a reason FB can't build anything new.

1.0
Oct 22, 2022

Train Wreck

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Wide reach of software that you can work on.

Cons

Onboarding broken, Bootcamp broken. They are trying to phase you out.

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