This was a veteran engineer with more than 15 years of experience at other large tech companies before joining Meta.
Before: Hired in as Staff Engineer [E6], brought in as a domain expert. Worked for almost 2 years before the PIP
During: Not surprised based on rating trends. Main issue was code productivity, inability to use tooling such as version control
After: Struggl

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