Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO

Re:Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO by numair on Friday October 02, 2009 @05:32PM (#858096)

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.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO by dataman85 on Friday October 02, 2009 @06:21PM (#858167)

Funnily 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.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.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO by billjings on Friday October 02, 2009 @07:47PM (#858255)

I'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.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO by mediaman on Friday October 02, 2009 @08:49PM (#858325)

Absolutely correct. Much of their demise can be traced back to their refusal to provide their risk control group any teeth.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO by toadpipe on Friday October 02, 2009 @07:01PM (#858211)

So 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.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO by jfarmer on Friday October 02, 2009 @08:42PM (#858317)

Both Adam and Dustin moved on to start their own companies, Quora and Asana, respectively.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO by vaksel on Saturday October 03, 2009 @01:38AM (#858555)

it's venture beat, they probably wrote it as a way to suck up to Facebook, hoping that they'll get some scoops as reward.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO by ashu on Friday October 02, 2009 @05:55PM (#858124)

Seconded for the first paragraph of this comment. No comment on the second one.

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