you're wrong. The issue at Meta is that you might not be able to find the right combination of work that will get you a positive evaluation come performance rev

you're wrong. The issue at Meta is that you might not be able to find the right combination of work that will get you a positive evaluation come performance review time. Let's say you get hired in an org where the opportunity for impact are limited (mature area, blocked by dependencies in other teams etc...) then doing nothing or doing stuff that doesn't matter means you will get a poor performance review unless you're politically savvy enough to get a LOT of people to essentially overlook that the work you've done is meaningless. After the negative perf, you will get piped and then fired. It's incredibly stressful to be in that situation and breeds all kinds of bad behaviors that make Meta a bad place to work at times (very often).