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My roommate works at Meta and from how he describes the culture to me it seems quite intense and competitive already. I can't imagine what "turning up the heat" even more would imply.
Just go on LinkedIn and search for “Director, Operations” at meta. I know of directors who have gotten there simply by hiring two “layers” of management under them.
This is a company that has paid well above market for Ops “talent” and the MBAs that dot the insides of the firm do very little. Nonexistent support, hacked accounts everywhere, no one cares. This isn’t an engineering problem, it’s a bad bad political problem within operations.
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Does this read “Let’s ditch those ethical people who get in the way of profit.”? Yes FB is not for me. Not as a worker, not as a customer.
Imagine how bleak it must be to be an average SWE at facebook. Sure, you get paid a ton of money, but now they are going to "turn up the heat" on you to pump glorified CRUD message board features faster. (yes, I know there are probably lots of intellectually interesting jobs at Meta, but the overall purpose and mission just isn't exactly inspiring)
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Performance Summary Cycle. It's a thing where you get performance reviews every 6 months, and where every minute contribution gets scored. Or so I've been told by a former mid-level Facebook manager who quit after a bit more than a year because he couldn't stand that toxic place anymore. I found it particularly funny that the interviewers who gave the thumbs up to hire him would get bad marks because of his early dep…
I read that it is once in a year now.
If anything, that makes this internal announcement worse because of the whiplash.
"We're going to make PSC less onerous and stressful by only doing it once a year!"
"Just kidding, we're actually going full Hunger Games with the new once-a-year cycle!"
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I quit Facebook because I was getting pings by Zuckerberg himself on button padding on one of his pet projects.
Shouldn’t that take only a few minutes?
Also, what a clear signal the CEO is not focusing on what matters. This was during the time the Cambridge Analytica thing broke... There's really nothing more important that needed his attention?
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I quit Facebook because I was getting pings by Zuckerberg himself on button padding on one of his pet projects.
Shouldn’t that take only a few minutes?
Reminds me of Yahoo! at their great obsolescence tipping point when they were sunsetted to be replaced by Facebook. Zuckerberg has huge spread in Hawaii just like Yahoo! founder Yang did...the chuckling Marissa Meyer, cutbacks... 'lean in' Sandberg facing a host of legal issues.. it's like the same script again. Wonder what the new Yabook! will look like post recession...
Blood in the water. Might be a good time to start a new social network. A simple blue interface that doesn't have all of the clutter and noise of Mybook. We can launch at universities first, invite-only.