We React to Zuck’s “Masculinity” Comments and Meta’s Big Layoffs
In this episode, Kaila and Kyle discuss some of the recent news surrounding Meta—from their announcement of cutting 5% of their workforce, to Mark Zuckerberg’s recent comments on masculinity in the workplace.
00:00 Intro
00:51 Meta’s recent announcement around firing practices
04:25 Two potential upsides to Meta’s “rank and yank” system
07:07 Issues with stack ranking systems
13:39 What is the ideal performance incentive at work?
17:29 How certain incentives cause “creaming”
20:09 What’s going on with managers?
22:53 Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan clip
32:12 What we can takeaway from Meta’s new policies
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