Meta Software Engineering Manager reviews

3.1

56% would recommend to a friend

(72 total reviews)
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61% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Manager, Software Engineering employees have rated Meta with 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 72 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Manager, Software Engineering professionals have a good working experience there. Meta is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Manager, Software Engineering professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Oct 27, 2020
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Pros

For those that appreciate a bottom-up engineering culture, this place is great. People throw together ("hack") prototypes, and the most successful ones win. Everything is about the results. Things like documentation and reliability, which some engineers bristle against, are secondary. Bureaucracy is nonexistent.

Cons

Engineers who prefer a more "design first" style will find it infuriating. The "don't talk to me unless you've got a prototype in hand" culture can feel like it's stifling ideas (even though it's a very reasonable reaction against pie-in-the-sky proposals). Proper architecture and code quality can be big problems. There's a strong emphasis on social networking as a means of getting things done. For introverts this can be unduly difficult, and even for extroverts it can come across as a triumph of personality and schmoozing over sound engineering principles. There is a strong emphasis on trying to fabricate relationships in order to have impact, which can feel extremely deceitful.

2.0
Oct 24, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Most skillful engineers in the country

Cons

In my position I had a lot of influence in hiring and terminating employees. I have being exposed to dubious decisions in that area by upper management, actions taken without good-heart and with conflicts of interest. This behavior could only thrive in our Cult-like company where truly speaking out your mind could hurt your career. Quite ironically, the values of giving constant feedback are encouraged in Facebook, but in reality, employees are afraid of giving negative feedback as they know the potential devastating consequences of doing so. Negative feedback will be given about technical decisions and ideas but not about managerial decisions or the human resource department from fear of upsetting the wrong people.

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