Meta to Ask Many Managers to Become Individual Contributors or Leave

Re:Meta to Ask Many Managers to Become Individual Contributo... by standardUser on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @06:17PM (#34701352)

I've never worked for a truly large company, so maybe I lack perspective. But the idea that a company could incorrectly hire THOUSANDS of people over a few years boggles my small-company mind. Hiring is so exhausting, so time intensive and so boring. And it does nothing (directly) for the bottom line - instead it costs a ton of money! Given the ultra-mega-hyper-elaborate interview process at a lot of these companies, we're talking literal fortunes on top of fortunes worth of manpower (er, personpower?).

Imagine paying hundreds of people to hire thousands of other people and then saying "oops, we overshot by 6,000 hires!". How can any person in a leadership role that is responsible for that kind of misfire possibly keep their job?

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Re:Meta to Ask Many Managers to Become Individual Contributo... by janfb on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @06:54PM (#34701784)

Maybe the 80/20 rule applies here: 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (or employees in this case).

The problem is, that you can never be quite sure which 20% to keep and which 80% to fire.

Big budgets allowed companies to play it safe. Not anymore, it seems.

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Re:Meta to Ask Many Managers to Become Individual Contributo... by dopeboy on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @11:03PM (#34703976)

When you believe in a new technology and mission, as many at Meta do about the metaverse and VR, hiring isn't boring. It's exciting to be able to bring on more people to execute a vision you're bought in on.

I'm a founder of an 8 person startup and we're looking for an engineer right now. It's an exciting process for me to pitch the vision of the company to these candidates. It is also exhausting and time intensive - but not boring.

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Re:Meta to Ask Many Managers to Become Individual Contributo... by AlwaysBCoding on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:30AM (#34705225)

because the hiring process is on autopilot and the leadership of the company has already exited / checked out so they're not incentivized to care or be in the weeds enough to preemptively put a stop to it.

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