It seems like you’re bringing your own bias in here, as I have no idea how you reached your conclusion that Meta engineers are only good at leetcode from that a

It seems like you’re bringing your own bias in here, as I have no idea how you reached your conclusion that Meta engineers are only good at leetcode from that article. With that being said, Facebook had quite a culture of dogfooding the many years I worked there. I don’t know if that’s still the case, but I would imagine it is. In this case, the metaverse was a stark departure from the core Facebook product suite, and its importance was dictated top-down. I could see a lot of engineers uninterested in engaging beyond the necessary because of that. Contrary to Zuck’s belief, it is important to work to get employee buy in on a vision, otherwise people won’t put real effort toward achieving that vision. A lot of C suite tend to think they can steer the ship anywhere they want and employee morale or pushback is just an irrelevant externality.