[arjunlol]

This was particularly bad at Meta pre-efficiency push Zuck. There was huge bloat that was counterproductive. Empire builders were incentivized by promotions based on the size of their orgs.

One thing the article didn't mention is how crucial it is for a team to have focus and to ruthlessly prioritize. It's easier for bigger teams to fall into the trap of doing "busy work" and people fighting for scope on their performance reviews. This is the worst possible outcome for company and employee where you have work driven by optics vs value.

[nextworddev]

Empire building has gotten rejuvenated recently at faang due to people politicking to get the fancy AI projects

[kridsdale3]

I quit meta in large part for this reason, right before the push. My friends who stayed said the workload was hell, but I wonder if I would have experienced less manager / director incompetence.

P Thiel, in 0-1 which I just started, says if you find yourself in an org where people spend more time building artifacts of showing progress, than progressing something, quit.