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My roommate works at Meta and from how he describes the culture to me it seems quite intense and competitive already. I can't imagine what "turning up the heat" even more would imply.

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When I was there (Oculus) I would not have survived 2 weeks if I had not worked > 8 hours and gone in most weekends. I was on a small team whose pace was simply much faster than any job I've ever had. And everyone seemed to have had a more impressive career than I. Perhaps I'm who Mark is talking about! Microsoft was much more my speed.

They'll force more people into the lower buckets of the stack rank. It’s very dystopian in its simplicity.

there isn't really a stack rank, and they're pretty careful about not fitting performance into predetermined quota buckets. honestly i think attrition will get the numbers down fairly quickly, although unfortunately probably pretty evenly distributed among good and bad engineers.

> there isn't really a stack rank, and they're pretty careful about not fitting performance into predetermined quota buckets

That's what I thought too, but then in my first PSC as a manager when I was there I was added to a spreadsheet called "<org name> stack rank", where we had to rank everyone rated as Meets All, because we were 3 people short of our quota for <= Meets Most

If you have differentiated rewards, you have a stack rank. They might not call it that or leave some flexibility in evaluating it but rest assured it is there.

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