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The Meta Mistake And Why Nobody Is Immune To Low Performance
Not even the rockstar developers, ninja coders, or the 10x engineers…
Meta is a short, casual walk away from me. Their office is just one of the gazillion semi-deserted offices in Silicon Docks, Dublin, Ireland. It happens to be one of the tech companies I would never consider working for, alongside Google and Microsoft. Seeing Meta’s latest layoffs announced, further solidified my belief that keeping a black-list of companies, never to engage with as a developer, is a good idea. But of course, that only stands true if you care about yourself more than money. I happen to do so. Which is the crux of the problem at Meta and many other tech companies that suddenly decide to do mass layoffs of their so-called “low-performers”.
“It’s OK, it’s only the low-performers. That would never be me.”
Tell me you haven’t thought that at least for a split second whenever you read the news about some company “thinning the herd”. And maybe you still think that. Surely, someone churning out code like a mad-man would never be considered a low-performer, right? You’ve been climbing the ranks year after year. You’re a promising hot-shot principal engineer at the young age of just 27 (that’s not even sarcasm anymore). Perhaps…