Facebook Data Scientist Reviews

Pros

nice view + nice people

Cons

4 round in a day , way to tired

Pros

Influence, autonomy, convenience, challenging, data driven.

Cons

Growing pains as we mature

Pros

- great opportunity to work with the smartest people from the world - most products have billions of users so your work have a big scope - beautiful campus, good snacks, foods, and benefits

Cons

If you are a data scientist, you need to really care about two things: - Impact. Unlike SWE, who can prove their impacts by finishing pre-planned coding projects and rolling out pre-planned features, data scientist does not automatically get credit if you only finish beautiful analyses. You have to suggest eng team to apply your suggestion from analysis, and prove how much of the product growth are from your... analysis. So sometimes your impact can be subjective. - Skillset. You may be asked to do a lot of ad-hoc analyses from eng team, which I am sure are very important and can guide engineers whether to implement certain features, but that will prevent you from doing some deep dive analyses and learning some new techniques in data analysis. Maybe after a year or two, you will find that you did not build any statistical models or haven't touched any machine learning. But that's the skillset what other companies will ask for when you apply new job. Who cares you did how many ad-hoc analyses or AB test or wrote how many data pipelines. It's the fancy machine learning model that will earn you respect. Also, total pay is lower than SWE for the same level.

Pros

Good perks and comp, coworkers are nice and fun

Cons

Very competitive environment. No possible to succeed if you don’t work 60+ hours. Focus on short term impact due to performance cycle every 6 months. No clarity on expectations of roles. Mix signals from leadership about culture

Pros

Hard to find another company that moves fast at this scale

Cons

You have to be able to manage upwards and downwards

Advice to Management

Evaluate the big bets and ensure resource alignment

Pros

+ High salaries + Amazing perks + Open culture

Cons

- Overcrowded campus - Work-life balance in some engineering teams

Pros

Challenging, engaging, supportive. There is opportunity and the resources to tackle any challenge you can find. They truly value a strengths based approach. You can learn a lot here and be compensated fairly.

Cons

Disorganization. Part of the challenge is that Facebook is really difficult to comprehend in its entirety and you need to try.

Advice to Management

More people in project management roles. Too many individual contributors without guidance.

Pros

All tge benefits, very smart people, great problems to work on, infinite amount of data

Cons

You might feel like second class citizen if you are not SWE

Advice to Management

Close the gaps between different job families