Meta staffers were sparring all the time when I was at then called Facebook company. It was during the last elections and it was excruciating. People would be v

Meta staffers were sparring all the time when I was at then called Facebook company. It was during the last elections and it was excruciating. People would be very agressive during Q&A and internally in posts and groups. We should do this, we should do that, this is wrong, no THIS is wrong. Everybody had their righteous opinions on how the company and specific teams were supposed to work. I remember Mark becoming red with anger during some of these weekly Q&As, and the CTO looking like he was about to cry. Yet they still kept on going and continued to give these weekly Q&A (I think a lot of people respected them for that, even with the divisions I believe trust in mgmt was the highest metric at fb) I remember fighting against Chinese groups criticizing western medias and talking about how tiananmen massacre is a hoax while Mark was publicly reprimanding the people who would scratch the “black” of “black lives matter” from some of the walls of the office to overwrite it with “all”. During all that time the American people hated fb. HN couldn’t comprehend how engineers could accept to join and work at facebook. The social dilemma came out on Netflix. As someone who really liked the facebook app and thought it would continue to change the world in a good way, it was really hard to read about the company externally and to see employees destroying it from the inside. I think my opinion now is that 1) any type of organization becomes problematic once it gets too large/accumulates too much power (religion and the government are much more of a problem than Meta though) and 2) politics shouldn’t be allowed internally. People shouldn’t “come to work as themselves”. People really suck and they should keep a lot of things to themselves.