Meta Research Reviews

3.5

67% would recommend to a friend

(70 total reviews)

83% positive business outlook

Meta Research has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 70 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there.

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70 reviews
2.0
22 Sept 2020

Just do yourself a favor.

Recommend
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Pros

- Team members / Colleagues (at least in software department, not sure about other department) are great! Everyone is helpful and fun to work with. (Two star for this) - and... sometimes when you're lucky, you can learn a lot of new stuff. - and...

Cons

*Disclaimer* These are things I saw during my time there, it might be different now. Check it out yourself. *wink* - Bad management : Checkout the other review, and you will realize the management is really bad. "Dictatorship", "Poor Management", bla bla bla... - Don't want to admit having customer support In this company, we don't have support! How incredible!!! Yes. All the Customer Support in this company are Software Developers (and also some Business team member.... Sometimes... ). Actual Software Developer. - Working after hours: You got to standby (as support) until night time, and you wouldn't get a single extra penny (or holiday) back for the time you lose in helping them support at night time. Because that's apparently your responsibility since it's your turn today (yeah, we have timetable for night time support. It's not shift, it's after work hours, get the difference) - Meetings... again...: Within one day, you are possible to be involved in 3-8 meetings, especially and not exclusively for seniors / team leads. And some of those meetings can be really pointless. When you need some decision from the upper levels, 99.5% chance they are in meeting, and the other 0.5% they are in toilet and going to meeting after finishing their business. - Conflicting Decision Making: We have two key decision maker, and sometimes they have different opinion on things. The key thing is, sometimes they didn't come up with a decision, and left the person asking hanging in the middle. You would have to ask again later, and hopefully you get an answer this time. - Asking interns to leave review before leaving the company (in jobstreet, unsure about glassdoor) (If you are intern and they ask you to write review here, take note of this, I have do yourself a favor and read the terms of use. "You may not coerce employees to leave reviews. Coercion includes asking employees to provide proof to an employer that they wrote a review whether or not that proof includes the content of the review itself.") - Rushing Release - Leaders that cannot decide - etc, etc.

1.0
1 Dec 2021
Recommend
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Pros

-mediocre to slightly* higher pay than the market can offer at your very first year (many other companies offer this so it's nothing special here) -affordable food stalls and restaurants near the company (again, nothing too special) -parking allowance -laughable amount of medical claim

Cons

ironically the other negative comments/ reviews that you see here are mostly all true. some notable mentions: -high turn over rate (many employees could not stand the management and most of them left without even securing a new job first, it's that bad) -dictator leadership style (you get treated differently if you do not agree with boss's opinions) -no KPI at all, employees get promoted/ raise solely based on boss's preferences -interns not getting tasks they are supposed to get (software engineering students getting production AND support tasks 80% of the time, NOT even QA tasks like other companies out there because Meta does not have QA, etc) -"A company without integrity"... a quick google search on Meta's main product on social media and you will see the full story. -no work-life balance (you are expected to standby for support, because management refuse to hire proper support team, or invest time and effort in fixing the existing problems in the products that caused all these problems in the first place) -interns forced to leave positive reviews on job searching sites (now that's some desperate measures) -micromanagement. again, this makes the working environment more hostile and toxic. -0 diversity. yeah, all Chinese in this company. So don't even bother applying if you are not.

1.0
26 Nov 2020

A company without integrity

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Colleagues are friendly and helpful.

Cons

A company that would not even invest in good chairs for all employees (the quality of chair will be depending on seniority which is ridiculous considering everyone will be sitting on it for more that 9 hours a day!) The company has little to no integrity in terms how they conduct business which is rather sad. For example : Most of the reviews on glassdoor or on jobstreet are faked by the company itself due to overwhelming bad reviews. They expect employees to do support even after working hours which is not clarified in the job description. Management do not know how to actually manage people and expects people to obey them without questioning which is rather archaic way of doing things. In terms of how they treat their clients, its rather unethical as well therefore making working there a matter of questioning ones principle. They expect to hire the cream of the crop however they do not have the capability of training and retaining them. They will throw training videos (actually it is rather handover videos which previous employee recorded) at newcomer and expect them to listen to them all and know what is going on. From there, no more training will be given therefore please do not expect any huge career development from there. They will also give you task unrelated to your job scope as they are short of people as many people has left due to their attitude and style of work. Please also do not expect appreciation to the work you have done, as they will focus on your mistakes instead of the progress you have made. Not to mention, they have favoritism and do not treat all employees professionally.

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