Facebook Reviews in Seattle, WA Area

Current Employee – been working at Facebook full-time for less than a year

Pros – make a difference in the world
no nonsense hacker culture
generous vacations and parental leave

Cons – no 20% time
legacy code can be a little patchy in places

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Facebook full-time for less than a year

Pros – Lots of freedom to choose what you want to work on. Also, the company does its best to ensure you have everything you need to do your job really well. And bunch of very smart people to work with.

Cons – Too much ambiguity. if you are someone that expects to be told what to work on and what needs to be done, this ain't the place for you.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Facebook full-time for less than a year

Pros – _Everyone is world-class in everything they do, from PMs to Legal to Engineers who are some of the best around.
_The challenges are huge, the impact is vast
_Anyone can propose ideas and try them out as an experiment, the best experiments will make it out to 1 billion people!
_Free food
_Tons of awesome perks

Cons – _Can be hard to manage work/life balance sometimes, but that's mostly because there isn't enough time in the workday to work on everything I want to work on...

Advice to Senior Management – Management can sometimes steer the company in another direction too fast which can cause organisational whiplash. Try to plan out a bit farther ahead and have less knee-jerk reactions to change everything all at once.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Facebook full-time for more than a year

Pros – There is little friction between developing product improvements and shipping them. Engineers are generally given lots of authority to figure out the right thing to do and just do it. When people come from other companies they are often shocked by this, but even as the company has grown there are still very few gatekeepers between an engineer and getting their code into production.

Cons – Lots of the internal systems can be flaky. Scale is more important than reliability or consistency in some cases, which makes building reliable apps frustrating.

Advice to Senior Management – Put more focus on engineering quality and many issues will right themselves.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Facebook full-time for less than a year

Pros – Very exciting place to work. High visibility and impact. The company is very open and transparent about it's workings. I feel like they treat me like an adult, with the expectations that I'll act like one.

Cons – I work in a remote office (Seattle), and find that the culture here is different than in the main office in Menlo Park. I think more could be done to migrate the culture to the remote office. I'm also concerned that if growth (# of employees) is something we seek to maximize, and something we measure success against, then we jeopardize the amazing culture that has been so well cultivated.

Advice to Senior Management – Love it here, hope that we can maintain the amazing work atmosphere as the company grows.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Facebook full-time for less than a year

Pros – Fast paced, lots of very committed and competent people around me. Company is dedicated to innovation and wants to do good in the world.

Cons – Change of environment (Unix -> Windows) can make people less productive in the short term.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Facebook full-time for more than a year

Pros – The engineers here are all at the top of the field. They could work anywhere. Everyone I've worked with has all the magic engineer powers: really smart, good at getting stuff done, and fun to be around. The company knows it, and so there's not much red tape on the engineering side. It's up to each person not to break the push or launch a feature too fast. It's refreshing.

Cons – Not a small company anymore.

Advice to Senior Management – The hiring bar has been very high as long as I've been around. Let's keep it there.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Facebook full-time for less than a year

Pros – Code ships quickly
Every engineer has a lot of impact on products
Easy to move between teams
Engineers are encouraged to find teams where they have the most impact
Very smart co-workers

Cons – If you're used to a cruisy corporate job, this is not the place for you

Advice to Senior Management – Stay focused and keep shipping

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Facebook full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - good learning experience
- fun culture

Cons – - hectic and chaotic
- constant reorgs

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Facebook full-time for less than a year

Pros – Everyone in this company has incredible energy and passion for what they do. You get to work with some really smart people without any of the politics I've seen with other employers. Everyone is trying their best to be awesome at whatever it is that they do and having fun at the same time.

Cons – At 37, I'm one of the old guys.

Advice to Senior Management – It will be a challenge to keep things the way they are, particularly as we continue to grow.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company