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It has been interesting to see the different approaches to future planning in the wake of Covid-19 by the two big ad players. While Google is looking to scale
by actuator 6y ago
It has been interesting to see the different approaches to future planning in the wake of Covid-19 by the two big ad players.
While Google is looking to scale back on things like hiring, FB looks to be going all in on this opportunity and doesn't seem to be slowing down with future plans specially wrt hiring(though they have pushed back joining dates to the later half of the year). They even considered it wise to do an all cash deal for $6 billion for a minor stake in a telecom provider in India.
- mcharezinski 6y agoFB to the win. Younger company. PIP culture. Hot products. They will collect nice talent during current recession. Bad for Google.
- actuator 6y agoDon't all companies have PIPs? Does Facebook have disproportionately high percentage of PIPs compared to their peers in FAANG, even Amazon?
- throwaway1777 6y agoThe original post was about Google and generally I’d say FB is indeed faster to hire and also faster to pip/fire than Google. Compared to Amazon and Netflix, probably not.
- nappy-doo 6y agoI was a manager at FB for a couple of years. Basically, my first official act as a manager was firing someone. From there, it was pretty much, "find one person on your team per year to fire." It was an extremely high performing team, and even the less talented engineers were still very good. I quit rather than live in the culture.
- actuator 6y agoWas this similar to MS's infamous stack ranking system where some teammates will be always rated bad even if everyone is doing well?
- ra7 6y agoYes, FB has a similar system.
- throwaway1777 6y agoThat’s bullshit. FB does not stack rank.
- thewarrior 6y agoThere is stack ranking at the org level. It’s all a bit hush hush but it’s there.
- toast0 6y agoMaybe not to the degree that Microsoft does (did?), but look into 'calibrations', which is similar.
- nappy-doo 6y agoyes they do. I sat in multiple calibrations. They stack rank.
- mcharezinski 6y agoDid you lie to HN community to gain fame or it is actually true?