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‘Why Is Meta Destroying Its Engineering Organization?’
Gergely Orosz, writing at The Pragmatic Engineer (which, sadly, is a Substack blog):
The biggest problem: people stop caring about real work and focus
on performative work. Let’s check the four ingredients that
Meta’s leadership has decided to introduce to their workplace:
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