Is Meta a good company to work for as a Senior Software Developer?

Senior Software Developer professionals working at Meta have rated their employer with 3.2 out of 5 stars in 469 Glassdoor reviews. This is a lower than average score with the overall rating of Meta employees being 3.5 out of 5 stars. Search open Senior Software Developer Jobs at Meta now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Senior Software Developer interview questions at Meta .

Does Meta pay Senior Software Developer employees well?

Senior Software Developer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Meta with 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 469 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 4.3% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Senior Software Developer salaries at Meta.

How happy are Senior Software Developer professionals working at Meta?

38% of Senior Software Developer employees at Meta would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has decreased by 37% in the past 12 months. Senior Software Developer professionals have also rated Meta with a 2.4 rating for work-life-balance, 3.5 rating for diversity and inclusion, 2.6 rating for culture and values and 3.8 rating for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Meta?

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What are the pros of working at Meta according to real employee reviews?

"The company has great benefits and really makes sure you and your family have everything you need." ((in 2375 reviews)); "Great people: my team in particular were some the smartest and most engaging people I've worked with." ((in 2010 reviews)); "I think that some of the pros are the that it has a good pay and is in a nice place like california" ((in 1500 reviews)); "1) Work with the best 2) Always get challenged but in a positive way 3) Caring environment 4) good salary" ((in 735 reviews)); "free food and transport are great" ((in 657 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Meta according to real employee reviews?

"Well know is the bad work life balance with MPK (USA) still holding the string late hours are common and needed to get on." ((in 1025 reviews)); "PSC (Performance Summary Cycle) is pretty intense and there are frequent layoffs which mostly has nothing to do with your performance" ((in 807 reviews)); "1. Can be super stressful 2. Bad manager can ruin your life 3. Efforts are not praised or counted 4. Code output doesn't matter" ((in 396 reviews)); "Politics and poor leadership in the mid" ((in 369 reviews)); "many employers are very invested in their work and spend long hours; as a result it can be easy to let work/life balance slip" ((in 224 reviews))

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Meta Senior Software Developer reviews

3.2

38% would recommend to a friend

(469 total reviews)

Mark Zuckerberg

30% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.7

Compensation and benefits

3.8

Career opportunities

3.5

Diversity & inclusion

2.7

Senior management

2.6

Culture & values

2.4

Work/Life balance

Senior Software Developer employees have rated Meta with 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 469 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Meta is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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469 reviews

5.0

Jan 10, 2024

Great Culture, but big

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Always something to do, good salary

Cons

Sometimes projects are dropped without good reason

5.0

Jan 5, 2024

Top-of-the-marker comp but difficult culture

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Very comp - Lots of autonomy and flexibility - Plenty of very smart people to learn from - Challenging tasks - Easy to change teams

Cons

- Lot of chaos especially in product teams and integrity - High level of red tape in product development - Constant re-org and change of direction - Offices outside of CA have limited options for internal mobility - Work/life balance may be very bad (esp in the USA) but it depends on org/team

5.0

Dec 28, 2023

Challenging and Impactful Job

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

On cool thing about working at Meta is to realise that almost everyone you see during your regular day uses software you are building. Meta gives unique opportunity of working with unprecedented scale that poses super interesting engineering challenges. And you'll be working on them together with extremely talented engineers. Of course, let's don't forget about good compensation and decent management.

Cons

I would mention quite a poor work-life balance and lack of recognition. Several rounds of severe layoffs was also quite a tough time to get through.

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