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My roommate works at Meta and from how he describes the culture to me it seems quite intense and competitive already. I can't imagine what "turning up the heat"

• doktorhladnjak 4y ago
  They'll force more people into the lower buckets of the stack rank. It’s very dystopian in its simplicity.
  • distrill 4y ago
    there isn't really a stack rank, and they're pretty careful about not fitting performance into predetermined quota buckets. honestly i think attrition will get the numbers down fairly quickly, although unfortunately probably pretty evenly distributed among good and bad engineers.
    • digbert 4y ago
      > there isn't really a stack rank, and they're pretty careful about not fitting performance into predetermined quota buckets That's what I thought too, but then in my first PSC as a manager when I was there I was added to a spreadsheet called "<org name> stack rank", where we had to rank everyone rated as Meets All, because we were 3 people short of our quota for <= Meets Most
    • doktorhladnjak 4y ago
      If you have differentiated rewards, you have a stack rank. They might not call it that or leave some flexibility in evaluating it but rest assured it is there.
• psyc 4y ago
  When I was there (Oculus) I would not have survived 2 weeks if I had not worked > 8 hours and gone in most weekends. I was on a small team whose pace was simply much faster than any job I've ever had. And everyone seemed to have had a more impressive career than I. Perhaps I'm who Mark is talking about! Microsoft was much more my speed.