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Re: Meta reportedly plans more job cuts

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Post by nicolashahn » Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 10:05 PM UTC

a4a4a4a4 wrote: post #61

civicsquid wrote: post #44

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I have no idea what will happen, but it sort of sounded like (from the limited reporting that's been done) they'll focus a bit more on managers / non-ICs this time -- if it happens at all. It is kind of nasty to think about the timing though. If true, they kept those managers around to do the very undesirable and time-consuming performance cycle (yearly review) work and will be letting them go now that the process ha…

I think Meta does reviews every 6 months, which makes it basically perpetual.

Official perf reviews recently switched to yearly, but there's a "touchpoint" every three months, which is just a very light perf review with no ratings/direct outcomes until the annual one

Re: Meta reportedly plans more job cuts

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Post by science4sail » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 1:46 PM UTC

bugbuddy wrote: post #17

labrador wrote: post #12

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the firings will continue until morale improves

What about the raises, bonuses, and stock awards this year? Will they also be cut?

From what I hear on the grapevine, bonuses have been cut, but I'm not sure about the others.

Re: Meta reportedly plans more job cuts

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Post by klodolph » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 8:20 PM UTC

jstx1 wrote: post #42

andirk wrote: post #38

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As a common Software Engineer, I see my type of position as transient, whereas those database guys, the ones who make sure all the guts run, all that crazy shit, they're needed night and day. They can fire me and hire a version of me the next day, but the people next to the bare metal seem to have a lot more stored in their brain than can be easily replicated with the next recruit.

You're putting them on a pedestal a bit too much. Their work isn't as different as you think.

I worked closely enough with the people maintaining custom database software at $COMPANY. They were damn smart and had lots of good experience. BigTable at Google was created by an all-star team and they raised a generation of amazing programmers and SREs under them. There’s a lot of cross-pollination, staff moving between Google and Facebook, and Facebook has its own teams of amazing programmers working on database problems.

Maybe the work “isn’t so different” but it is more difficult, on a technical level, than most projects. Some real interesting, ground-breaking work was done in the past 20 years or so and a lot of the people who did that work are still around.