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The same people who bully the ones that actually do the work for not being fit for “company culture”. I had a similar experience before where I over delivered every task, but that wasn’t enough because I refused to join pizza parties and other “team building” activities.
Working with others only works if you work with others
They should rotate all employees between divisions. When done creating AI puzzles they can enjoy a stint in the Content Review team.
They should spend one day working at a McDonalds or as a last mile delivery driver. Ill bet playing with a chat bot looks a lot better after that.
It feels like, when the history of Facebook is written, it will be clear that the company destroyed itself.
Zuckerberg had 2.5 good ideas: Facebook (shared), prioritizing mobile early, and buying competing social platforms with high growth
Everything else they've thrown big money at has been a dumpster fire.
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I think everyone deserves to participate in meaningful and dignified work.
From the article, it seems to me they've been "relegated" to coming up with Leetcode problems for AI. Which, let's face it, a bunch of them probably already did before for their SWE interview circus. I can see why they may feel under-employed/under-utilized but aside from the dystopian data gathering, I really find it hard to see what they are complaining about. The article even admits that their current tasks are ea…
It is a grim irony.
1. Human trains on leetcode to land AOGMX SWE job
2. Job forces them into new role writing leetcode to train AI
3. ...
4. AI eats human, inherits the earthIt feels like, when the history of Facebook is written, it will be clear that the company destroyed itself.
It feels like Facebook will be written as a warning business case in allowing a single person to retain too much decision making control. Zuckerberg had 2.5 good ideas: Facebook (shared), prioritizing mobile early, and buying competing social platforms with high growth Everything else they've thrown big money at has been a dumpster fire.
It feels like, when the history of Facebook is written, it will be clear that the company destroyed itself.
One of the common private equity playbooks recognizes this - they’ll often jettison anything resembling an R&D department from a new acquisition, and run the company as a cash cow. If its market dies, so be it. Leave the innovation to the startups who are focused on it.
The problem with Facebook is that the founders have ambitions beyond their capabilities (apparently).
I wish these losers the worst. Working for zuck is its own reward.
Reminds me of when you hear that an asshole in your extended social circle is dating another asshole and you think "Fantastic! They're not hurting good people anymore"
― Samuel Butler
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It feels like Facebook will be written as a warning business case in allowing a single person to retain too much decision making control. Zuckerberg had 2.5 good ideas: Facebook (shared), prioritizing mobile early, and buying competing social platforms with high growth Everything else they've thrown big money at has been a dumpster fire.
Worst still, they destroyed social media, perhaps even contributed to destroying mobile (destroyed in the sense that, well, they became dumpster fires).
The only plausible alternate reality I can see would have been one where US anti-trust was vigorously enforced and kept Instagram and WhatsApp from being bought.
But that would have required expansions of US anti-trust law to allow for more proactive deployment.
It feels like, when the history of Facebook is written, it will be clear that the company destroyed itself.
The problem is, what were their other options? They made a ridiculous amount of money on a social network. Where do you go from there? VR and AI were and are attempts to remain relevant, but not every company succeeds in doing that, and Facebook is particularly unsuited to it - you don’t just pivot from web dev to innovating in new fields. One of the common private equity playbooks recognizes this - they’ll often jet…
The private equity strategy of putting Meta into maintenance mode and focusing purely on their social media business would have been much better.