Meta Software Developer reviews

Bad WLB Bad performance reward culture which incentivizes metric hacking. Lack of long term vision in leadership. Yes boss culture. Short term projects compared to long term which incentivizes people to only tackle low hanging fruits.

They keep pushing 15-20% people down to the bottom and manage out(no pip, just direct terminate) every half. Everybody is so anxious that they keep pushing the bar higher, so you are never good enough but keep chasing, Manager has the biggest power, no matter how much work you do, they'll just say impact/visibility is not enough and decide your rating. Some teams have endless SEVs/alerts that feels like oncall 24/7, some teams you don't need to work after 5pm but you can't stop thinking/worry about work(cause finishing planned roadmap is not enough now) so you open the laptop and found everybody else is also working. In 2026, no one is writing a single line of code, we just talk to AI all day, and using AI is part of the performance evaluation. Now a 1 month project is expected to be complete within 1 week due to AI assistance.