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On the software side, I think this is related to Meta shutting down entire projects at a time. Their employees have some fixed amount of time (3 months?) to fi
by zomglings 4y ago
On the software side, I think this is related to Meta shutting down entire projects at a time.
Their employees have some fixed amount of time (3 months?) to find another team in the company before they are forced to exit.
It would be easy for the company to arrange it so that high performers find a team easily and low performers are phased out quietly without a team picking them up.
I am not sure how many of the people that the article is describing are software engineers. Contrary to other comments, I believe a large proportion of the workforce that will be removed will be technical.
- FartyMcFarter 4y ago> It would be easy for the company to arrange it so that high performers find a team easily and low performers are phased out quietly without a team picking them up. Yes - in fact this should happen naturally by simply restricting each team's headcount growth, together with shutting down other teams.
- hotpotamus 4y agoIn my head, I imagine Zuck would prefer to just force all the employees into one large room and dump as many knives as there are jobs he wants to keep in and let nature take its course, but I could be a bit of a cynic.
- zomglings 4y agoSquid Game style? I think there's a legitimate issue with how salary expectations have increased during the pandemic. These expectations will now have to be corrected. What's happening at Facebook is just part of that correction. Google is doing the same thing, as are other tech companies. 2023 is going to be bloody and brutal.
- hotpotamus 4y agoI haven't seen it. I was thinking more like gladiatorial games - doesn't Zuck see himself as a Neo-Augustus type leader? https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-haircut-explained-augustus-caesar-2019-10 https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-haircut-expl...