Meta reviews

What Mark Zuckerberg is doing with layoffs and cost savings has completely decimated morale. Everyone is anxious and everyone is for himself. The company I joined talked about diversity, inclusion and 'Meta, Metamates, Me". There is no sign of Metamates anywhere now. It's the Hunger Games where executives are tone deaf and don't acknowledge the panic they've set off, and employees are trying to outlive each other by backstabbing, plotting, hording information and other underhanded tactics. As cost cutting set in, the food became awful and the perks were no longer competitive. There is also no intelligible vision for the future of the company and instead the company is either chasing near-term Ads and Reels metrics or spending tons of cash on pipe dreams, like the Metaverse and questionable AI initiatives.

For senior folks it's hard to find projects with good scope. The company had layoffs, even for people left behind the morale is down and indications are more people will either be managed out or leave on their down. Meta is not growing but is shrinking. They still suffer significantly from being short term impact driven in PSC process, they've been trying to change this for years, even removed the Move Fast / Break Things and replaced with Long term. Problem is most of the folks in calibration and running the show still have short term impact in their DNA as they way they measure everything. Mark is very fixated on the meta-verse as a bet the company initiative. Problem is that he is spending soo much on it and the likely timeframe when it goes mainstream is still years out. Also the ads business is in trouble with the economy in decline and head winds from apples privacy changes, they basically need to rewrite the ads stack which will take a long time and revenue will suffer in the mean time.