{"id":131295,"date":"2025-10-19T03:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/131295\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T03:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:10:14","slug":"meta-is-hiring-entry-level-roles-that-pay-up-to-290000-a-year-and-require-little-prior-experience-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/131295\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta is hiring entry-level roles that pay up to $290,000 a year and require little prior experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New graduates are leaving college and heading into a tough labor market<\/a>\u2014entry-level roles are dwindling<\/a>, managers are wary of hiring<\/a> Gen Z candidates, and AI continues to automate<\/a> more jobs. But Meta<\/a> is actively on the hunt for fresh talent, and it\u2019s willing to pay the big bucks for the brightest young minds.<\/p>\n

The $1.8 trillion technology company has a few entry-level jobs on the market: a Full-stack software engineer<\/a>, and multiple<\/a> product software engineer<\/a> roles. And lucky for Gen Z just getting their start in tech, the roles don\u2019t require a decade of experience. To qualify, candidates only need a bachelor\u2019s degree in a relevant field like computer science, computer engineering, or applied sciences.<\/p>\n

Top candidates for the full-stack and one of the<\/a> software engineer roles should also have completed a university-level course, internship, thesis, or 12 months of work in one of the following: PHP and Hack, C++, Python, react framework, coding issues, or large scale storage infrastructure or frameworks. The other iOS software<\/a> engineer job necessitates a year of experience in skills like object-oriented software development, multithreading programming, and Linux or Unix.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a plus that these Meta<\/a> roles come with envy-inducing salaries; they pay anywhere from $176,000 up to $290,000 annually, alongside other perks like bonuses, equity, and benefits. However, WFH-loving candidates<\/a> won\u2019t be able to clock in from their couches\u2014each full-time role is in-person, whether that be working at Meta\u2019s Washington or California offices.<\/p>\n

Candidates vying for the competitive spots could consider studying what Meta\u2019s CEO Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> says he looks for in talent.<\/p>\n

The tech pioneer and Harvard dropout has revealed that<\/a> skills outweigh a flashy college degree in his hiring philosophy\u2014but it should be noted that these entry-level Meta roles still require a bachelor\u2019s. Zuckerberg looks for job candidates who have mastered a skill and can apply it across business areas at the company. What they studied in school matters less than their ability to get things done and innovate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf people have shown that they can go deep and do one thing really well, then they\u2019ve probably gained experience in the art of learning something and taking it to an excellent level, which is generally pretty applicable to other things,\u201d Zuckerberg told Bloomberg<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n

Meta\u2019s entry-level roles are a welcome addition to a bleak Gen Z job market. Recent graduates were once promised that studying fields like computer science, coding, or engineering would guarantee them six-figure salaries after college. But now, AI automation has flipped everything on its head. Earlier this year, the Washington Post reported that computer-programmer<\/a> employment dropped to its<\/a> lowest level since the 1980s\u2014one profession that has been hit hardest over the past few years.<\/p>\n

Struggles aren\u2019t limited to computer-programmer roles\u2014tech companies have been shedding<\/a> young staffers across the board since 2023. The percentage of Gen Z employees between the ages of 21 and 25 has been cut in half at technology companies over the past two years, according to a Pave study from this year. These young professionals accounted for 15% of the workforce at large public tech firms, like Meta, in January 2023; by August 2025, they only represented 6.8%. And the situation isn\u2019t pretty at big private tech companies, either. During that same time period, the proportion of early-career Gen Z employees dwindled from 9.3% to 6.8%.<\/p>\n

There seems to be a clear culprit that\u2019s graying Silicon Valley\u2019s workforce: businesses are being pressured to do more with less, and automate human jobs. Of course, the roles with the simplest tasks are the first to go, disproportionately affecting young hopefuls looking to start their professional lives. Matt Schulman, the founder and CEO of Pave who had early-career experience at Facebook (now Meta) and Microsoft<\/a>, has witnessed this shift in his industry. While Meta has made headlines for poaching<\/a> OpenAI and Google<\/a> DeepMind<\/a> staffers with $100 million signing-bonuses<\/a> in the AI race, at its core, the company is known for chasing up-and-coming talent.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost public companies have fleshed out training programs that are squarely centered around new grad programs and university recruiting,\u201d the Pave CEO, with early-career experience at Facebook and Microsoft, explains. \u201cA company like Meta, their whole talent thesis was to go after universities, get the smart 21-year-olds, and then train them up.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story was originally featured on Fortune.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New graduates are leaving college and heading into a tough labor market\u2014entry-level roles are dwindling, managers are wary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[79,21175,1096,18,25842,19,17,227,1721,1722,78796,10197],"class_list":{"0":"post-131295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-computer-engineering","10":"tag-computer-science","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-experience","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-jobs","16":"tag-mark-zuckerberg","17":"tag-meta","18":"tag-roles","19":"tag-software-engineer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}