Meta's Overhiring Problem

Arguments that Meta, like Twitter before it, was massively overhired and that thousands of engineers weren't needed to maintain mature social media platforms. Some suggest the data labeling reassignment is effectively a soft layoff, and that Meta could operate with a fraction of its 25,000 engineers.

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Having worked at meta, something I noticed is that the orgs that were well run were ones that were bought. WhatsApp, reality, insta, etc. I worked in an org that was not associated with those products and was purely homegrown and it was awful. Things got done but horribly inefficiently due to over hiring and extreme requirement and schedule shifts. I believe that the cultures that were developed outside of Meta are used to launder the image that meta as a whole has a good engineering culture.