Facebook Reviews in San Francisco, CA, US Area

I have been working at Facebook full-time for less than a year

Pros – Awesome coworkers, challenging projects, hacker culture, not being afraid to take risks, amazing infrastructure, hardly any bureaucracy

Cons – Can't think of anything here.

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

I have been working at Facebook full-time for less than a year

Pros – Incredibly intelligent and friendly people. The world's most interesting data set. Amazing perks. Truly motivated to bring people together.

Cons – Can be a noisy environment

Advice to Senior Management – Sharing an open floorplan is great, but the point of the openness is to understand (a little) what the people around you are working on. But when people aren't speaking english, exclusively, it feels a little divisive.

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

I have been working at Facebook full-time for less than a year

Pros – 1) everyone is insanely smart. so it's a great place to progress.
2) despite 1) people have no ego. no one is territorial. you don't like something and think you can do better? go at it.
3) the internal culture build around the "hack" directive is very strong, very motivational and makes me feel very comfortable
4) immense data to analyze
5) everyday a chance to make an impact

Cons – ok, so it's not in downtown san francisco. that's really because i have to say something here.

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

I worked at Facebook as an intern for less than a year

Pros – You will be surrounded by friendly and talented people at Facebook. Some of the most skilled designers and developers are working at the company which makes it exciting to show up and work everyday.

Cons – You have to be ready to work hard. This is not necessarily a con but something that many people may not be ready for.

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

I have been working at Facebook full-time for more than a year

Pros – 1. Great benefits and perks
2. Passionate and dedicated employees
3. Fun and exciting environment

Cons – 1. No career growth and lack of internal career paths
2. Low compensation
3. Lots of politics within the company (many ex-Yahoos and AOL employees are in management)
4. Bad culture and habits brought in from ex-Yahoos and AOL employees are making a big negative impact on culture and morale at the company
5. Mark Zuckerberg, aka Zuck has received good ratings in the past but of late he has been very distracted and not focused on how the company is run internally, he should own it and step up by making management changes to course correct the ship before it becomes another AOL.

Advice to Senior Management – Do something to address the low compensation issues and morale/culture issues within the company, make changes to management particularly in the engineering and sales organizations since the same traits that they had at Yahoo and AOL are starting to show at Facebook as well.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Facebook full-time for more than a year

Pros – The best thing about this place is that you have so many smart people around you. You can learn from the best, working on the most interesting products for 1B of people.

Cons – Food, definitely. It's so good and available so easily you can gain a stone or two quite quickly.

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

I have been working at Facebook full-time for more than a year

Pros – I've been able to define my career trajectory here by focusing on projects that I think will have the highest impact on the business. It's up to me to fight for the resources (people, time, money) I need to complete the project. But at the end of the day and after a lot of hard work, Facebook is a place where I can take a vision and take it to fruition.

Cons – The usual scaling issues with companies in this stage of growth. Luckily we have a great culture, but sometimes it's hard to manage the expectations of your role and prioritize important projects.

Advice to Senior Management – Use data to monitor employee engagement and productivity closely.

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

I have been working at Facebook full-time for less than a year

Pros – - you can choose your team, and, later, you can change it;
- the company is a significant contributor to open source;
- there are lots of smart people around you;
- plenty of perks (great and varied food, company shuttles, public transportation, bike repair, laundry & dry cleaning, banking, ...)
- powerful hardware to develop on

Cons – - no 401(k) matching;
- some teams work around the clock;
- things are constantly changing in the development process;
- preference for "generalists", who know a little bit of everything and nothing particularly well; it might be hard for "specialists" to find a good team that favors depth vs breadth

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

I have been working at Facebook full-time for more than a year

Pros – It is good to work here with the smartest people in San Francisco bay area. The company is always moving fast.

Cons – Sometimes it is moving too fast. The food in cafe can be better, but the snacks in micro-kitten are really good.

Advice to Senior Management – no advice

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

I worked at Facebook as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Get to work with really smart people.
Incredibly fast-paced dev environment.
Do everything to make you happy - place you on projects you're excited about.
best perks

Cons – Lots of work.
Almost no cons

Advice to Senior Management – great job

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