Facebook Employee Reviews about "free food"

Pros

Free food, cool office, nice culture and people

Cons

Difficult to get permanent role in FB

Pros

Good parks (Benefits are good), office furniture, free food

Cons

Political, difficult to transfer internally or promotion

Pros

Free food Micro kitchen Insurance

Cons

Career development is poor too

Pros

Good benefits and free food

Cons

Terrible management, Long hours, lack of diversity

Pros

Awesome place to learn about engineering and management. At least, in a big company at scale. You can almost live on campus. I guess I mostly spent on rent and gas. Free food, showers, gym, ~700 dollars on external wellness activity, paternity leave, and lots of small perks to simplify your life. FB fosters quite a friendly culture. At least, on the level of engineers. Semiannual reviews partially evaluate how good your relationships with the colleagues. FB is very good at employee retention. Management will try hard to find interesting projects for you. Lots of projects that may bring a great impact. Quite unique projects at scale. Lots of pocket communities with interesting activities. Good compensation.

Cons

Lots of big politics around the company. There is always pressure from the government, society, the media, and even from own employees represented by a vocal left-leaning group. You will also get the part of this pressure as an employee. Noisy environment. Sometimes it's good to have people around, but often you'll find yourself distracted. The company likes open spaces, MPK 20 is a living nightmare, though MPK 21 was designed better. No digital nomad options, except big work-from-home mode right now. Code quality is diverse. Some open-source libraries/frameworks are brilliant. Check folly or react. The non-public part totally depends on the team. HQ, the biggest part of the company, is located in Menlo Park. The place has a nice nature around but has certain issues with the rent price, infrastructure, and gender ratio. Young unmarried man should think twice before moving to the Bay Area, .

Pros

Hands down the people and environment that you get to work in are next to none. Competitive salary and free food are obviously great perks as well but I personally would sacrifice a bit of pay to enjoy the work I do and people you get to work with.

Cons

Work life balance can be tough at times

Pros

* Excellent compensation and benefits. Takes really good care of its people, from excellent free food to subsidized laundry. * Lots of unique engineering scale challenges. * Engineers have a lot of autonomy and decision power. * Variety of different areas and expanding options in every office. * Fairly easy to switch teams and even offices / geographical location. * Great dev infra. Most menial jobs are automated. * Fast paced and growing - lots of opportunities for career growth. * Still kept some good things about startup culture like focusing on what matters.

Cons

* It's becoming more corporate with growth - harder to find opportunities that really move the needle, getting more political, more processes, etc. * With size, discrepancy in culture between orgs is growing. If you land on a bad position it may be harder to switch. * After negative media cycle on social media, isn't attracting same passionate people as before * Your friends and even random people will want to tell you how they feel about social media. Some will even blame you for Trump. * Culture of "move fast" and "focus on impact" taken to the extreme in some orgs which causes lots of incidents, unnecessary stress and terrible codebase.