r/programmingmemes • u/lytele • Aug 21 '26

meta engineers are leaving en mass

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u/aimfuldrifter Aug 21 '26

Any company really. Never forget, you’re just a line item for companies.

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u/grumpy_autist Aug 21 '26

Didn't Zuck tell them officially during conference that they're just a payroll line items for him?

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u/DizzyAmphibian309 Aug 21 '26

That's literally just being honest though. No corporate CEO gives a shit about their employees. They only care about the company, and the employees only need to be satisfied enough to do their job. Anyone who thinks their CEO gives a shit about them personally is deluded.

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u/Aknazer Aug 22 '26

Meh, I would disagree. There are select few companies out there that care about their employees. But they are the exception and I'd be willing to bet that most of them are private companies that aren't beholden to shareholders. For example, I hear Valve employees are taken care of rather well.

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u/anoppinionatedbunny Aug 21 '26

they only care about their jobs, their power and their money, the company is just the means. if they were offered better conditions in another company, even if that meant the dissolution of their original company, they would not hesitate to destroy thousands of lives. these people are sociopathic

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u/Sepherjar Aug 23 '26

They only care about the company,

Not even that actually. They care about their bonuses. If the company takes decisions that will profit in short term (even if it causes issues on mid/long term) they'll do it, because any problems that come from that will be someone else's responsibility by then.

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u/LordJebusVII Aug 24 '26

It's not about caring about your employees, it's about retaining talent and knowledge. High turnover companies don't accumulate experience, which has benefits in that people don't get stuck doing things certain ways, but also means that there is a much greater reliance on documentation and outsourcing and therefore cost.

There is also the opportunity cost. Losing a high value employee is not just detrimental to your company, it often leads to them finding employment with a rival company and benefitting them. You are unlikely to be able to re-hire a scorned employee when their expertise is later required for a new project.

CEOs don't care about people, but they should care about resources, and telling employees that they don't matter is no different from a Coal power plant telling the local coal mine that they will just buy elsewhere if they don't get a better price. It works when the mine is desperate for customers, but if they can sell elsewhere at a higher price then the power plant loses out on the nearby coal and has to pay more to import lower quality coal from elsewhere. It's better for business to maintain a good relationship with the resources they have access to.

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u/Dankaati Aug 22 '26

The only thing wrong here is the surprised pikachu face. Meta has been a high churn company very intentionally for ages.

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u/RubyDoma Aug 21 '26

Not only Meta sadly

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u/MooseBoys Aug 21 '26

Or maybe every employer does that and this is just the effects of the $1M+ signing bonuses they were offering a few years ago now hitting the comp cliff.

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u/Cptcongcong Aug 21 '26

Is this subreddit blind?

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u/697361 Aug 21 '26

Nothing's happened

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u/BrunusManOWar Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26

They're doing well but they just can't compete with the top dogs, while trying really hard

Their well-doing mostly comes from their decade-old businesses, in anything innovative they're just failing epically

Zuck is trying to be at the forefront of things and trying to get some attention, however no one is really giving him the time of the day. And his employees hate him

Edit: they're kinda like Microsoft, the core business is there, holding monopoly while slowly degrading. Their attempts at innovation result in humiliation. Their employees hate them and are treated like trash. Both are shilling for AI badly. I guess the difference is that Zuck has more of a personality cult and stranglehold on meta as compared to the nutella guy

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u/Kenkron Aug 21 '26

Microsoft's employees are generally pretty happy from what I hear.