Meta

Benefits and pay are good despite stock price drop. It's a recession and I gotta stay for posterity :(

Coworkers are passionate, smart, and cool.

Immediate managers are easy to get along with and strong.

You work on big things that your friends use.

• Senior management is composed of literal boomers that don't care about the products that actually matter to people.

• They won't take accountability for dumb decisions they pushed.

• Dumb top-down decisions are extremely reactive to news and market movements, and there's an inability to commit to a plan for more than 4 months (????).

• There is no more room for non-metaverse innovation.

• The company has given up on the real bread-winning products except for the Facebook app, which they only care about for stonks.

• "Move fast and break things" has just resulted in everything being broken.

• You get credit for shipping something, not making it polished. Yay janky product goes brrrrrr onto the next thing.

Please, please, please stop making top-down decisions in reaction to each and every news article.

You are out of touch with your younger users, and every decision you make to "solve x y z" ends up alienating them more. Go back to bottom-up product ideation and focus less on metrics and more on things that genuinely make your users happy.

You of all people should know that boosting metrics for a year doesn't make a social product sustainably important to people's lives. I can guarantee you that your stock prices will go up when you make things people actually want; you just need to be patient and actually care.

You can't just read a tech strategy article, take psychedelics, dream up some random stuff, and order people to focus on achieving this dream solution to your relevancy problems. You especially can't do that and then do it again every half year and change directions right when teams are starting to build velocity on your previous out-of-touch direction.

If you want to be relevant again, why not innovate instead of copy? Stop getting in the way of teams that are working on fun things, please.