The recent layoffs at Meta were really brutal, even more so than the previous ones because they unfairly put the blame on the employees. Several people in my (extended) team were fired. None deserved to be in my opinion. They were all very capable. They got "meet most" rating mostly due to external circumstances which weren't their fault.

As a consequence, we need to backfill these roles, it'll take months to find replacements and ramp up the new persons. This is without a doubt a net negative for our team. Maybe the goal is to kick every remaining employee in the butt so they work harder, not sure if it'll work.

All of this happened when the company makes huge profit and is hiring a lot. I'm still not able to make sense of this. And it's not only the layoffs, there's more and more hostility towards employees.

I don't know if Zuck is forced to appear tough to please Trump and Musk and perhaps save his company, or if he drank the kool aid, or if he's just trying to save cost to build new AI infrastructure, or taking advantage from bad market conditions for SWE. Probably a bit of everything...