Not what it used to be. Plagued by a frustrating performance evaluation
Pros
- great compensation and perks - chance to meet awesome professionals and learn from them - great to list on CV - chance to see and work on services used by billion of peoples - great chance of career growth if you are a junior or mid senior engineer
Cons
- frustrating performance review process (called PSC), it feels like it's very hard to improve rating or get promotion at a senior level, it's more about being liked by the manager and get a great scope to work on - code quality is surprisingly abysmal - would again blame the PSC structure - most of the code base is unowned or even abandoned, not documented, and to accomplish anything there are lot of painful processes to go through - consequently the coding experience is quite bad Surprisingly, this is no longer a company where SWE is the ideal role, nowadays it's much better to be an Engineering Manager, as they get rewarded mostly for team impact, but they don't need to prove correlation. So they can just cuddle a few high performers and make the bad ones' life miserable so they'll change team fast. Hardest part of being a manager, helping reports' career, is really not a thing at Meta (for senior engineers).
