Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective

Post by packetlost » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 4:38 PM UTC

buzzwords wrote: post #168

packetlost wrote: post #167

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That's true to a point, but Amazon is finding out the hard way that eventually the well of people willing to put up with bullshit runs dry and it becomes much harder to get actually good talent or workers. Meta needs to be careful IMO. The subset of capable people willing to work for a company as demonstrably evil as them is not infinite.

Oh I have not heard about the Amazon issue. Can you please point me to an article or post detailing? Now I'm very curious.

Post by groundzeros2015 » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 4:48 PM UTC

fullshark wrote: post #141

groundzeros2015 wrote: post #125

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No? > I think we have the answer to is Zuckerberg a "dimwitted or just evil". It's probably the former

So you think he's not dimwitted? And instead of making an argument you just insulted the OP needlessly? Let me guess is your argument: "He built a trillion dollar company and you didn't"

Post by ozgrakkurt » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 4:49 PM UTC

vladmk wrote: post #20

Seems like a lot of CEOs overestimated the speed of AI, but also it is inevitable.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 5:02 PM UTC

overgard wrote: post #66

tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #45

I wonder when (if ever) the companies realize that demoralizing your workforce (and destroying that sector of the job market) doesn't have only advantages. I know plenty of people that reacted with the desired fear, putting in long hours to avoid layoffs, willingness to accept lower pay because the job market sucks, etc. - but I think there are also plenty of the the mythical 10x engineers that just checked out, stop…

Yeah, working harder to avoid a layoff in a big company doesn't really work out - by the time you know about the layoffs they've probably already made their decisions about who stays and goes anyway. Plus that higher rate of effort might be unsustainable and you end up leaving on your own accord anyway or burning out. Layoffs somewhat change the employment arrangement too for the people that stay: "we pay you the sam…

Post by seizethecheese » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 5:11 PM UTC

this_user wrote: post #110

mrweasel wrote: post #23

The title is a weird. Ineffective? At doing what? This is an interesting quote from Zuckerberg: > trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected Combine that with the other theories about Meta management in the article, I think we have the answer to is Zuckerberg a "dimwitted or just evil". It's probably the former. He can't plan four mon…

Zuckerberg was never a great strategist. The only good strategic decisions that he was ever made were the acquisitions of Instagram and Whatsapp. Almost everything else was either completely misguided, way too late, or executed so poorly that it could never work. Meta is basically the Temu version of Google. Google also goes wrong a lot, and they are mostly resting on their big successes from years ago, but they stil…