Meta sagt, dass es in diesem Jahr nicht darum geht, die 5 % der Schlusslichter zu schwächen
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-says-no-performance-related-layoffs-planned-2026-2
Meta sagt, dass es in diesem Jahr nicht darum geht, die 5 % der Schlusslichter zu schwächen
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-says-no-performance-related-layoffs-planned-2026-2
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Probably cut too much earlier and now shit is starting to break. They dont know who knows what.
Sounds like they have reached an expected breaking point with the constantly cut lower 5 percent performers.
That only works in the very short term. Long term it destroys all company coherency. Why would an employee help another if they can surpass the other in performance rankings?
This effectively anihilates any kind of team work ethic. No employee would willingly help another or a newby get better ever if this kept up.
Jack Welch can fuck right off for having popularized this concept in the first place. Is anyone shocked that General Electric is a shell of its former self?
The bottom 5% of performers are all AI agents
It’ll chop 20% of its workforce instead…
Even if you have all Nobel winners teams it’s gonna be a 5% bottom performers.
It’s just a mathematics fact and doesn’t mean that the bottom 5% is underperforming.
The only one underperforming here with this shit is Zuckerberg.
Aren’t those the people who usually get promoted?
To me, the concept of bottom driven pruning seems extremely stupid in specific contexts. Imagine hiring extremely talented and smart and driven people. Obviously they clear a certain bar. Then being told to fire the bottom x% despite them already clearing the bar ??
Bar raising via bottom pruning is a self feeding blackhole waiting to implode. But then again, companies have stopped investing in employees
See you until next year 10% bottom performers!
What they mean is they won’t chop the bottom 5% – they’ll chop the bottom 35%
How kind of them.
/s
If I’m a good employee that has options to pick from, you’d have to pay me significantly more than the competition just to be in that toxic of an environment
Capital one/Amazon does this and the reviews speak for themselves
Plot twist: it’s because they’re chopping the bottom 50% when opus 6 drops
In my opinion bottom 5 is way too high. We do need to trim atleast 1% each year maybe 2. There are some people who are about as useful as cold pot
I have heard of sacrificial hires. However it often reflects badly on the manager. Managers are rated as well against their retention. If you fire a lot you generally will be fired. Additionally new hires get a year where they are excluded from the culling
Who would have thought making lord of the flies company policy does not work. Who could have predicted this?!
Why would anyone work for Meta unless they are massive cash wh*ores? It’s more ethical to sell drugs if you’re that desperate.
Well how damned nice of them. 🖕🏼
This is comforting, but I am not sure I believe it. The other players in big tech right now are cutting folks left and right with hard and soft layoffs to fund their ai capex. Meta has had perpetual fomo in the ai race and I can’t imagine them breaking from the herd on this.
I worked at Meta and it was crazy there. Lots of ppl stabbing each other in the back when it came to performance review. Ppl missing or underperforming would start blaming others as you can write a review on someone on your team or other teams you worked with covertly to save their own skin. Ppl are scarred and it’s made the environment there as bad as I have ever seen it. Ppl are stressed, overworked and fearful.