Google & Meta employees before and after layoffs
I notice before layoffs starting late last year, Meta and Google employees were the most defensive of their companies and cultures and how great it was, and would put down anyone who disagreed. I remember them saying that there would never be layoffs happening at either company even after multiple news sources confirmed the same. Now, the posts are completely different. Google and Meta current and past employees are very critical of their companies. What happened? Just the layoffs? Or anything else?
I feel similarly as a zoom employee. I loved our company culture pre layoffs; now I feel like I’m not working at the same company I was at when I started. But i think the proper perspective is that things had been problematic a while and the layoffs opened my eyes.
Zoom was just intoxicated from Covid growth. It probably was never a great company, they just had tons of excess resources to give their employees a drink induced buzz. Once it wore off, they were left with the hangover which you are experiencing.
RT this whole comment But for twilio
Meta culture has always been bad but the money made it ok. Google is the one where opinions have shifted the most
We realized that that a job is a job. It’s not a family. The jig is up. The lie is exposed.
A 10 year bubble simply popped and reality is revealed… We are doing a job and we get paid for that. Anything more than that such as a culture, vibe, family, etc is just vaporware in the bubble that popped.
Not sure about Google, but in Meta everybody knew that it would be layoffs.
Eventually you wake up and realize all the decisions that fuck you were actually based in bad faith and that any communication of good will and "thoughtfulness" was just intended to win the prisoner's dilemma by convincing you to repeatedly cooperate on all issues while they repeatedly defect on the most important ones.
There’s always been a lot of internal criticism. Perhaps after the layoffs, some of it has spilled out into external forums like Blind.
Alternative hypothesis: there were always different groups of employees on blind ranging from sycophantic to cynical. After layoffs you are just hearing less from the former group.
Meta employees definitely
The hate that comes out of love is a whole new level of hate
Them Facebook/Google employees going to awaken their Sharingan soon