‘Why Is Meta Destroying Its Engineering Organization?’

Gergely Orosz, writing at The Pragmatic Engineer (which, sadly , is a Substack blog): The biggest problem: people stop caring about real work and focus on performative work. Let’s check the four ingredients that Meta’s leadership has decided to introduce to their workplace: Tracking the keyboards and mouse clicks of all engineers, where legally possible Reassign a good chunk of engineers to full-time data labeling Let staff know that 10% of them will be laid off Have a culture where devs optimize for any an