[MichaelSalib]

I worked at FB briefly so maybe I can explain. FB has a corporate culture that really discourages critique. When things are broken, especially internal things, people look at you funny if you speak up about it. A big part of that is that quarterly bonuses are given for "making an impact" and your group's status (and part of your bonus) is based on delivering a consistent set of "impacts" over time. So it is better for your comp to do things badly really fast since you get (1) did something super fast! and (2) get to record a big impact a few months later when you fix the obvious brokenness.

Pretty quickly, people learn to keep their mouth shut.

Also, many, many FB engineers are early-career folk who are fresh out of school. More senior folk are few and far between and are even more strongly incentivized to keep their mouth shut, because their bonuses are bigger.

[amyjess]

Yesterday, this same rationale came up with why Google keeps launching new products and then abandoning them over and over and over.

I guess this is what happens when a startup gets big. They keep all the toxic baggage of startup culture (edit: "move fast and break things") while gaining the impact on people's lives that big companies have.

I think Apple is the only one of the FAANG that's jettisoned startup culture, and I think that's why they're doing so incredibly well.