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I know personally several persons who absolutely didn't deserve to get fired. Some had a slow H2 2024 after years of high performance. Some were just plain unlucky that their team was dysfunctional at that time. And even worse, some people were on parental leave.

This doesn't seem like a good thing for the company. Productive employees must be replaced, new employees must be hired, trained. Teams need to reorganize. Morale is low.

Unclear to me what motivated this decision. The company is doing very well. Low performers have always been "managed out", but this time was very arbitrary.

I used to see Zuckerberg as someone mostly reasonable (compared to other loony CEO/billionaires) but this seems pretty irrational to me. I suppose the goal is to put stress to the remaining employees, and show some toughness to get a bit of appreciation from Trump/Musk. It's not right...