5.0
Sep 11, 2012
Great workplace for motivated engineers
Current employee, more than 3 years
Menlo Park, CA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
1) You own your own career: choose a team and a project; switch teams when you're saturated; learn any skill you need. 2) Very little process and bureaucracy for a company of this size. 3) Hackathons.
Cons
1) You own your own career, which also means you have to be the one focusing on impact (and ensure it's visible) to progress. 2) The intense focus on impact can sometimes mean that longer-term, exploratory projects are harder to initiate, justify, and eventually get recognized for. Facebook is growing to the scale where a small team focused on "failing more often" (that is, crazier projects) would be beneficial.
