Are you able to imagine that Fb was based 12 years in the past? In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg and 4 of his fellow Harvard classmates launched thefacebook.com web site – a social community for different Harvard college students. In 2006, “simply” Fb opened its servers even to those that didn’t make it to the Ivy League and have become a worldwide phenomenon. In the present day, just about everyone seems to be on Fb, even your grandma.

There are 3,5 billion web customers on the earth and virtually half of them have a Fb account. That’s a reasonably substantial base of facebookers and the quantity remains to be rising.

In the midst of 10 years, Fb has modified quite a bit. What began out as a chatting and photo-sharing community is now probably the most influential social medium.

Fb additionally considerably formed the job market. Many individuals have jobs because of Fb. And we don’t imply solely Fb workers, however hundreds of social media managers, on-line entrepreneurs, PPC specialists and plenty of others for whom Fb and different social media have change into their every day bread.

Fb is among the prime corporations on the earth to work for. It doesn’t come as an enormous shock actually. Who wouldn’t need to work for some of the well-liked and most useful manufacturers on the earth? What’s extra, Fb’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the very best rated CEO on Glassdoor. Fb at present employs greater than 10K folks and has places of work in additional than 60 cities around the globe.

Who wouldn’t need to work inside the brand new Menlo Park, CA headquarters among the many brightest folks within the business?

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What are the most effective issues about working at Fb? 

1. Wage

Many critiques on Glassdoor highlighted the nice wage folks working for Fb have. Some reviewers, who had beforehand labored at Google stated Fb pays its folks even higher.

2. Individuality

Working at Fb will not be about obeying what the crew chief says. Fb workers ought to suppose for themselves and convey their very own concepts to the desk. The corporate runs on related rules as Fb as a social medium. Fb needs to maintain its workers linked and open in the direction of one another.

3. Free meals, drinks and snacks

In line with many optimistic critiques on Glassdoor, Fb treats its workers rather well. They will gorge on loads of scrumptious meals and snacks all day lengthy. Furthermore, Fb organizes numerous team-building occasions that the Facebookers love.

4. Open tradition 

At Fb, they focus on each difficulty overtly and with brutal honesty. Every worker offers and receives suggestions, whether or not it’s good or unhealthy. Workers usually criticise their leaders.

5. Crew spirit

The entire workplace works as one crew. Fb doesn’t like hierarchies – managers don’t behave as authorities, however fairly as part of the crew.

6. Q&A Classes with the CEO 

Mark Zuckerberg is the highest rated CEO on Glassdoor and the Facebookers merely love his common Friday Q&A classes in Menlo Park, the headquarters of Fb. All the workers have a say in inside points and may level it out to the CEO himself.

7. No fastened working hours 

At Fb, no one actually checks your working schedule, what issues is your output and your efficiency at work. No 9 to 5 form of factor. When you’ve got lots to do, you’re employed till you’re completed. However, in the event you’re completed for the day, you possibly can go house.

8. Household pleasant

Among the best perks in response to a number of workers is how household pleasant Fb is. Each fathers and moms get 4 months of paid household vacation with the understanding you’ll get your job again after you’ve taken care of your toddler.

Any drawbacks?

Up to now, working at Fb seems like an absolute dream come true. There have been, nevertheless, a few negative things the Fb workers pointed on Glassdoor:

Many Fb workers weren’t glad with their work/life steadiness. Regardless of many perks, there’s a excessive unpredictability of workload. This usually obliges Facebookers to work actually lengthy hours, few days in a row. Particularly software program engineers have a tricky time throughout an on-call responsibility. As Keith Adams, a former Fb software program engineer, says:

“For these weeks I don’t depart city on the weekend; make particularly positive to not have ‘one too many’ at any social gatherings I attend; and most significantly, carry and instantly reply to a charged cellphone the place I could be reached 24/7, together with leaving the ringer on the nightstand as I sleep.”