[hintymad]

> management that rewarded the appearance of great work more than great work. T

Two reasons: 1. The management can't really differentiate appearance from substance. 2. The management is not incentivized to reward great work. Either way, it shows the failure of Meta's culture.

> but the infrastructure they sat upon was too hard to use to do anything different

Ironically, so many Meta engineers had such superficial understanding of their platforms and infrastructure that they couldn't even pass the most basic interview discussions on systems design. Seems another sign that Meta grossly over hired or had a culture that focused only on some so-called impact.