Facebook Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Facebook full-time

Pros – Great perks, reasonable degree of autonomy, a culture of moving fast.

Cons – Unreasonable organizational walls. Like someone said, "sales trumps ops, marketing trumps sales, product trumps marketing and engineering trumps product." while these decision making hierarchies are OK in some contexts, they are quite unreasonable in most.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus carefully on where decision making sits. There is too much centralization today.

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

Current Employee – been working at Facebook

Pros – i like it very much

Cons – sometimes it is boring to me

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

Pros – Your rate of personal growth will be astounding. You will rub shoulders with the very best and you will have the ability to learn from, and contribute across a wide range of competencies, and pick up several new skills and solve challenges you never thought you could.

You are working on fresh cutting edge problems, wherever you work in the company, and the enthusiasm and cheer is really amazing, and fires you up !

People work really hard. Very little corporate politics. People will go to any extent to assist you with anything you are doing. People will be usually seen debating wide-ranging subjects that affect the World all over campus.

Cons – The learning curve tapers off after your first two years unless you are in roles that offer you immense elbow room (such as myself) - The opportunities to rectify this are there nevertheless.

Sometimes, the frenzy of belief in product borders on cult status, with designers, engineers and product teams residing in proverbial ivory towers, oblivious to pains of the World outside Menlo Park, CA

Hiring standards are dropping slightly, principles are compromised upon ! Newsfeed itself is now a place where ads are shown. Monetization has suddenly propped up from nowhere, where all it would have taken for us to have a better performance in the markets , would have been for Mark to have taken the IPO more seriously.

The satellite offices ( India for example) are often seen as poor second cousins with respect to everything. They don't command the automatic respect that a designer in Menlo Park would.

Advice to Senior Management – Ensure a much more solid career path now for individuals (doesn't have to be ala McKinsey) and let go of the "Jungle Gym" narrative. It is accepted now that we are a company that is unlike any other, and the "Jungle Gym" philosophy is already old hat. We know that we have those opportunitites, but it really is disheartening when two or three different teams end up claiming advantages for the same piece of achievement. ( Advertiser growth for example) - I can't elaborate more publicly.

The respective teams should know that they have to understand their pure, distilled philosophy for why they themselves are working on things, and learn as much as possible before "silo-ing" themselves in the pursuit of solutions that do not work.

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 – We work with some of the best brains in the industry and also get to interact with highly learned and experienced people. Work culture is awesome.

Cons – Free food and calories :)

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to be open and help in maintaining the flat org culture

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

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

Pros – learn work and grow with the best social site in the world

Cons – post IPO, facebook's company rating and compensation benefits are going down

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

Current Employee – been working at Facebook as an intern for more than 3 years

Pros – Best employement servise and most rigidious time flexible. Good for healthanyway!

Cons – Slow network conection and the confusion in timeline. work on it to do better fb..

Advice to Senior Management – Work On timeline.

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

Current Employee – been working at Facebook as an intern for less than a year

Pros – its a rocking company and fun to work there............

Cons – There are some loopholes which are needed to be look after........

Advice to Senior Management – they are doing a fine job.......

Former Employee – worked at Facebook full-time for more than a year

Pros – creative co workers and employer

Cons – fast lifestyle and a little stressful

Advice to Senior Management – you are doing a fine job

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

Former Employee – worked at Facebook

Pros – free food, laundry service, gym, shuttles, coworkers

Cons – friends of sheryl sandberg, over 4k employees

Advice to Senior Management – listen to your employees when they tell you something's wrong

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – I never knew a company could move so fast and get so much done while still kind of being out of control. The norm wasn't to follow a policy or to go by the book, but instead to continually innovate and ask why we do things the way we do. I was constantly challenged by the high caliber of my peers around me. I worry that I may never find such a great work environment again.

Cons – Work/life balance is great at Facebook, IF your entire life is Facebook. The lines begin to blur fairly early on between personal and work. This probably isn't a problem for the majority of early 20 somethings working at FB, but I found it challenging as a 30 something with kids.

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