Bottoms-up culture makes for easy operation
Bottoms-up culture makes for easy operation
Once you figure out the culture, it’s very easy to get things done at Meta. While middle management is very fear-driven and incremental in their explicit direction, they will never punish you for making them look good in a way they didn’t mandate. Figure out what the business actually needs, go do it, and get rewarded.
Product engineers can’t plan anything, especially multi-half work. It’s a sad sight.
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