Meta Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.2

38% would recommend to a friend

(478 total reviews)
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31% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Meta with 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 478 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 IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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478 reviews
4.0
Nov 13, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Developer productivity is given great importance. There's dedicated org for ensuring developers are highly productive, ironing out latency issues in VS Code, building new extensions for flagging syntactical issues, lint issues, exceptions, latency / performance issues [all within VSCode]. All this means time to write code is dramatically reduced [no worry about spinning up new instance, provisioning distributed machines, setting up development machines, etc] It's a great company in terms of perks, despite broad macro-economic downturn - we have £2500 wellness benefit and £2600 travel benefit, pension match upto 6% employee [9% employer contribution] with Fidelity, great insurance [level 4 with cigna for dentist & WPA for health]

Cons

Low value of RSU - negatively affects total compensation [stock component] Market doesn't believe in potential of meta-verse.

2.0
Nov 7, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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.

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