It depends. Facebook is a pretty good employer. It’s done some bad stuff. It also gets way more flak for doing the same stuff everyone does. For any problem with Facebook you hear about, there’s a team of people working on fixing that problem, and you can be on that team if you have the right skill set. On some of the issues Facebook gets criticized for, it’s already doing a better job than most (this is based on my experience working other places). Because Facebook is already cast as a villain in the media, it’s not going to get credit for that. How much will that bother you? Personally, I find it fulfilling to be helping to solve important problems, and I recognize that the bad press was earned by past conduct. It’s somewhat refreshing to work in a place where the risks of negative effects to society are openly confronted, instead of being afraid to bring them up (I don’t think I ever heard my coworkers ask those questions at my past jobs).
Some people respond negatively when they hear I work for FB, but their opinion turns when I give a bit more detail about what I do there. In that sense, I don’t think it’s harmed me socially.
Some people respond negatively when they hear I work for FB, but their opinion turns when I give a bit more detail about what I do there. In that sense, I don’t think it’s harmed me socially.