Re:Meta Tells Managers Promotions Will Be Few and Far Between
by tippytippytango on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @02:35AM
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Using headcount seems like the wrong thing to measure. But, it seems like maybe there’s a method to the madness? If you reward growing the pie then you avoid nastier politics like Wall Street firms might have. It’s a luxury that big tech has been able to afford. Now that they can’t afford this anymore I wonder if we see the relatively friendly tech cultures turn into a more brutal survival of the fittest. Seems like the good times are really coming to an end.
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Re:Meta Tells Managers Promotions Will Be Few and Far Between
by vineyardmike on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @03:29AM
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> relatively friendly tech cultures turn into a more brutal survival of the fittest
The problem is that often you have to collaborate a lot in these companies - you need to use services or libraries written by another team, for example. "Fittest" really makes no sense, because almost no one has a PnL sheet broken out by team like wall street.
That said, not all companies (Apple, Amazon) had super friendly cultures. If you maintain a core service at amazon, for example, you can expect to constantly have every dependents' roadmap shoved at you all year as it is.