Can anyone from FB explain the user hostile UI? Reading comments or posts is an exercise in futility. Resizing or moving a page will result in a refresh where you lose your place or can no longer find what you were reading. Is this an accidental side affect of design or do you guys sit in a conference room conjuring up ways to make user experience miserable?
Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'
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Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'
#122When I was an engineering manager there, engineering leadership described performance reviews as, in a large well run engineering organization, you'll probably be firing 5-10% of your employees every year for low performance. (Well, "non regrettable attrition", which includes people who quit when they get pipped.) Lower than 5% at scale would be a red flag, not necessarily wrong, you don't want to "stack rank" with a…
Isn't this quite paradoxical that those kind of companies have hard interviews where you have to almost prove that P=NP in front of 5 people that judges everything you do, yet they fire engineer because "ratio"?
Could this lead to a manager that tries to have the best team for himself will always include average employees that they can easily fire?
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#123Gave my notice yesterday, last day of work is Feb 3... 7 days before the layoff.
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#124It seems Zuck is turning into Elon. What's next? closing the European offices? forcing people to return to the office? relocating HQ to Texas?
Everyone who is smart see's which way the winds are blowing and it isn't in the direction of "more liberal". The US is looking at a cultural reset back into the mid to mid-late 20th century.
Perhaps a smidgen earlier, to the gilded age
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Peacocking for the new President’s agenda. No need to overthink it.
Could you explain what that means in layman's terms?
Making a display to signal one’s willingness to mate and intended to impress a target audience, in this case the incoming administration.
It’ll absolutely work, too. The new President loves to hear how good his ideas are.
He’s been speaking lately (on JRE just a few days back too if I’m not mistaken) about the responsibility of the US government to protect US companies abroad rather than hurting them at home. This was targeted specifically at Trump, and trying to encourage him to get on Meta’s side with regulators.
He also said on JRE that the Biden administration would yell down the phone at his staff for not censoring facts, this is to rile up the GOP in Congress to pressure Trump to be seen doing the opposite and standing up for free speech (as Meta defines it).
Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'
#126The beatings will continue until morale improves.
People joke about this, but when I was in a POW camp this actually DID work. About six months into my own daily beating regimen, I found I was sleeping longer and deeper, I had more energy and focus, and my libido had returned to a state not unlike my early 20s. My morale was fantastic. Only after having been repatriated and thus no longer subject to daily beatings did my morale return to lower levels. Why doesn’t Hu…
Nice try, Zuck.
Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'
#127It seems Zuck is turning into Elon. What's next? closing the European offices? forcing people to return to the office? relocating HQ to Texas?
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Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'
#128It seems Zuck is turning into Elon. What's next? closing the European offices? forcing people to return to the office? relocating HQ to Texas?
Everyone who is smart see's which way the winds are blowing and it isn't in the direction of "more liberal". The US is looking at a cultural reset back into the mid to mid-late 20th century.
Yes. Reminds me of this conversation in Shogun:
Yabushige: “How does it feel to shape the wind to your will?”
Toranaga: “I don’t control the wind. I only study it.”
Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'
#129It seems Zuck is turning into Elon. What's next? closing the European offices? forcing people to return to the office? relocating HQ to Texas?
Everyone who is smart see's which way the winds are blowing and it isn't in the direction of "more liberal". The US is looking at a cultural reset back into the mid to mid-late 20th century.
I know people love to describe future events in terms of past events but am afraid America is heading in a direction entirely orthogonal to its history.
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#130This is your regular reminder that tech is essentially a fiefdom. Just because you aren't a serf doesn't mean you aren't a peasant.
Ah yes, the peasants who are free to leave at any time, get nice salaries and a nice severance at the end, plus a ton of benefits. Oh and at FB many can still WFH. Big tech has problems, but lets not exaggerate - that undermines progress.
At least the peasants got their own offices