Meta Senior Software Developer reviews

3.2

39% would recommend to a friend

(465 total reviews)
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Mark Zuckerberg

31% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer employees have rated Meta with 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 465 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 IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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465 reviews
2.0
Jun 15, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good compensation - Great internal tools, a lot of them - Great people to learn from

Cons

1. Lack of clear direction from leadership. Priorities shift continuously, every year or every 6 months 2. Lack of long-term vision. All projects are PSC-oriented and need to produce measurable results in a short time. This has all sort of side effects like shortcuts, tech debt, and lack of innovation. 3. A bottom-up culture where engineers are pressured to find the scope and projects to work on, but constrained by points 1 and 2 and without having control on anything 4. Absurd 10% fire/10% hire rule, which exacerbates point 2

1.0
Jun 10, 2025

Hunger Games

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Best compensation of the market, perks are really good still, landing impact for billions of people is pretty awesome.

Cons

No work life balance, 50+ work hours per week, a lot of stress and pressure. Morale is at all time low. Stack ranking has started this year so everyone is worried about their individual performance and collaboration has dropped a lot. Not the company it used to be 3 years ago.

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