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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by ryandrake on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @08:46PM (#45676953)
> Meta has too many staff, exceptionally poor leadership, and a performance system that rewards bullshitters.

To be fair, almost every company has a performance system that rewards bullshitters. You’re rewarded on your ability to schmooze and talk confidently and write numerous great-sounding docs about all the great things you claim to be doing. This is not unique to one company.

Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by KaiserPro on Thursday October 23, 2025 @08:26AM (#45681040)
> almost every company has a performance system that rewards bullshitters.

Meta's is uniquely bad.

Basically your superiours all go into a room and argue about who did what, when and how good it was.

If you have a manager who is bad at presenting, then their team is sunk, and will be used to fill quotas. The way out of that is to create workplace posts that are seen by your wider org, that make you look like you're doing something useful. "oh I heard about x, they talked about y, that sounded good"

This means that people who work away and just do good engineering are less likley to be rewarded compared to the #thankstrain twats/"I wrote the post, therefore it was all me me me" types

This alignment meeting is all private, and there are no mechanisms to challenge it. worse still it encourages a patronage system. Your manager has almost complete discretion to fuck up your career, so don't be honest in pulse(the survey/feedback system).