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Every employee is rated on a scale from 1 to 5, with five being the highest. No one gets a five. If you get a 1 or a 2, you’re quickly shown the door. Related t
by numair 17y ago
Every employee is rated on a scale from 1 to 5, with five being the highest. No one gets a five. If you get a 1 or a 2, you’re quickly shown the door. Related to that are the steady departures of early founders and executives. Two of them, Adam D’Angelo and Dustin Moskovitz, were Zuckerberg’s high-school and college friends, respectively. They weren’t forced out, but they burned out or realized they weren’t right for their jobs.
Wow, what complete horseshit. Adam and Dustin were two of the most talented people Facebook had - they were the key to the engineering culture that made Facebook work in the first place. Half of Facebook's infrastructure and featureset either wouldn't exist or scale if it weren't for Adam's efforts, and Dustin was the guy who always rallied the troops...
I really hope people don't take this article at face value. This reporter/blogger/whatever he calls himself is obviously trying to prime the pump for scoops and leaks, or to get someone to show up at his shitty conference, or something like that.
- ashu 17y agoSeconded for the first paragraph of this comment. No comment on the second one.
- dataman85 17y agoFunnily enough, Enron had the same system where if you scored towards the bottom you were quickly shown the door. http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,129988,00.html http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,129988,00.h... Of course, most big companies have a employing rating system, but Enron was different because 10-15 % people were asked to leave every year.
- billjings 17y agoI'm pretty skeptical of the idea that harshly competitive environments have their value systems straight, but it bears mentioning that at Enron traders and deal makers were on the evaluation boards for the risk assessment group.
- mediaman 17y agoAbsolutely correct. Much of their demise can be traced back to their refusal to provide their risk control group any teeth.
- toadpipe 17y agoSo you're saying that "they weren't right for their jobs" is wrong. What about the "burned out" part? What do you know about why they left? Did they just move on the more interesting things, like so many startup people do? Genuinely curious here, as I don't know, or know much about, any of the people involved.
- jfarmer 17y agoBoth Adam and Dustin moved on to start their own companies, Quora and Asana, respectively.
- vaksel 17y agoit's venture beat, they probably wrote it as a way to suck up to Facebook, hoping that they'll get some scoops as reward.