Meta have laid off talent, not "low performers"
The press says it’s “low performers” and the by people I know are anything but - if we had the funds to hire right new we would, no questions no interviews because I know how good they are! A couple of them are 10x’ers, so “low performers” my hat.
Some of these people were on teams bought by Meta because they were out-performing Meta, and some of them had pretty tasty golden-handcuffs to incentivise them to stay, simply because they were that good! Most of them passed some pretty rigorous interviews and were placed on pretty cutting-edge teams, so to call them “underperforming” and imply they’re the bottom 10% is incredibly damaging and untrue.
It’s also likely a marketing play giving energy to one of the classic tropes in tech, that “only the bad ones get fired” and “I’ll be safe because I’m good” - that is, ignoring the imposter syndrome that we all get.
From what I’m seeing the reality is that Meta have made cuts on tech they no longer feel is valuable, like the Metaverse and AR, then painting a picture like it’s the fault of the poor people they’ve let go for being “low performers”. Not cool and I really feel for everyone who’s been affected. Sad times.
Ohhh I wonder if there’s class action lawsuit in the cards for “slander”.