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Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

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Post by PyWoody »

chaosharmonic wrote: post #244
desertrider12 wrote: post #195

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Imagine if avatar Gavin Belson had done the "metaverse legs" product reveal, with the animation running at 10 frames/second and a few legless avatars in the audience throwing up confetti. It would be almost too ridiculous to put in the show because the show itself would look like it was being cheap with the effects. But Meta had spent $36 billion on the metaverse at this point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njvp-E8…

Who do you think foreshadowed masculine energy coming back to tech? GB, with the Box 3 Gavin Belson Signature Edition? Or Russ Hanneman, with... everything? (Or was it Jared, with Russ being right about him?)

Ed Chambers (before he was fired, of course)

Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

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Post by linuxftw »

rsynnott wrote: post #367
paxys wrote: post #217

So in the first two weeks of the year Zuck has announced: - Replacing their global policy chief with the company's highest ranking Republican. - Appointing Dana White to the company's board. - Changing content policies to be aligned with the incoming administration. - Elimination of DEI programs in hiring. - Removing tampons from men's restrooms. - Defending all this in a 3 hour Joe Rogan interview. Ranting about the…

> Ranting about the lack of "masculine energy" at the company. This one in particular feels very midlife crisis coded; weird insecure masculinity stuff. But, y'know, most men who have issues with that get by with an ill-advised car or something.

Are you implying there are no differences between masculine and feminine? If there are differences and you value diversity, you should want masculine to be represented.

Unless you mean masculine == bad, which would be a very bigoted take.

Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

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Post by psunavy03 »

qwe----3 wrote: post #336
xigency wrote: post #309

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This is somehow better than exploring ways to improve your existing employees' performance?

There are people ready to be hired that aren't checked out

"Beatings will continue until morale improves."

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Post by bigfatkitten »

rsynnott wrote: post #367
paxys wrote: post #217

So in the first two weeks of the year Zuck has announced: - Replacing their global policy chief with the company's highest ranking Republican. - Appointing Dana White to the company's board. - Changing content policies to be aligned with the incoming administration. - Elimination of DEI programs in hiring. - Removing tampons from men's restrooms. - Defending all this in a 3 hour Joe Rogan interview. Ranting about the…

> Ranting about the lack of "masculine energy" at the company. This one in particular feels very midlife crisis coded; weird insecure masculinity stuff. But, y'know, most men who have issues with that get by with an ill-advised car or something.

That's just how he's always been. He's an insecure little incel at heart.

Facebook's precursor was a HotOrNot clone that used female classmates' photographs without permission. It takes a certain type of person to build something like that.

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Post by sharpshadow »

paxys wrote: post #217

So in the first two weeks of the year Zuck has announced: - Replacing their global policy chief with the company's highest ranking Republican. - Appointing Dana White to the company's board. - Changing content policies to be aligned with the incoming administration. - Elimination of DEI programs in hiring. - Removing tampons from men's restrooms. - Defending all this in a 3 hour Joe Rogan interview. Ranting about the…

He just does what the government tells him to do. Now, before and in the future. I personally dislike any divide and conquer agendas, especially the woke one, and am happy that it bursts now.

Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

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Post by pbalau »

fldskfjdslkfj wrote: post #240
yodsanklai wrote: post #230

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> 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 Interview process at Meta isn't that hard. Mostly medium leetcode questions (in front of single interviewer), not particularly tricky. With enough preparation, it's doable by any reasonably good undergrad. Google was slightly harder though. Simila…

It's a bit like a sport, you can have the skills and yet still have an off day or perform worse under pressure, so it's not just a matter of preparation.

From my experience on the Meta side of the interview process, the questions are designed to account for "a bad day".

Also, the follow ups are designed to eventually lock the candidate, since is not enough to pass the low bar, they want to know what your high bar is too.

Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

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Post by ein0p »

surgical_fire wrote: post #347
ein0p wrote: post #339

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Whether something is worthwhile or not is usually up for debate - not all projects are equally worthwhile. Having more "worthwhile" projects than engineering resources gives engineers a choice of work. That too is a good signal for whether or not something is worthwhile, because then you get motivated people to work on those things, rather than people doing things because they have nothing better available to them. I…

> Having more "worthwhile" projects than engineering resources gives engineers a choice of work. This is pure fantasy, except maybe if you work on a startup environment where engineers have a lot of autonomy. In any sufficiently large organization, you will be assigned to a team, and the scope of work will be sort of defined in some level of hierarchy above you as an individual engineer. You may have some autonomy to…

It's not a "fantasy" at all. That's how Google was for me circa 2008-2009 when I joined it and until I left in 2015. In fact this made it difficult for me to accept anything less than that. There was so much opportunity, it took me about 6 months to get used to working there - I came from a rather rigid, large company where everyone just stabs each other in the back for scraps all the time.

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Post by anthonypasq »

bigfatkitten wrote: post #394
rsynnott wrote: post #367

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> Ranting about the lack of "masculine energy" at the company. This one in particular feels very midlife crisis coded; weird insecure masculinity stuff. But, y'know, most men who have issues with that get by with an ill-advised car or something.

That's just how he's always been. He's an insecure little incel at heart. Facebook's precursor was a HotOrNot clone that used female classmates' photographs without permission. It takes a certain type of person to build something like that.

??? He met his now wife when he was a sophomore in college and has an extremely normal family life as far as I can tell.

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Post by laboratorymice »

brink wrote: post #95
GiorgioG wrote: post #11

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Being stuck carrying coworkers that don't perform sucks. Firing under-performers is what healthy businesses do.

This is true in theory. In practice, most managers either do not understand what "performing well" for an engineer means, or willfully go against what they know to be true due to internal incentive structures. For example, favoring those whose contributions are more visible in the short-term, even if net negative over time. Through such a lens, someone who is competent at executing a longer term vision, or refuses to do only those tasks that are visible, is a low performer.

I don't say this to bash your statement, I agree with you in principle. Just useful to keep in mind that the context matters. Sometimes, the people complaining about having to compensate for the low performer, are the actual low performers.

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Post by taikocat »

mingus88 wrote: post #242
tqi wrote: post #94

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Yeah 5% is a very weird number. Why not just stop over hiring?

Metas philosophy (based on what an ex Meta person told me) is “up or out” So if you aren’t getting a promotion, you are eventually getting fired. This meat grinder probably has some perverse incentives for employees and makes sure you are always churning through folk who you don’t need to pay QoL raises to

That sounds again like Huawei and those China companies
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