Short answer: Sam Nadler says Zuckerberg is restructuring to move fast after new hires arrived. Jordan Metzner says he has heard of cultural issues when long-time staff know a new colleague may earn $250,000,000.
Watch this answer from Episode 9 (starts at 18:48) · Episode 9 notes and transcript
From Episode 9: Hiring Tools, Built from Scratch, starting at 18:48.
Jordan Metzner [18:48]: On Friday, The Information announced that Meta's shaking up its AI org again, following up on kind of the AI story here. But I think this is funny because of the fact that they just started to build this thing, and they just spent all this money on Scale AI. But curious what your thoughts are. I've talked to a few friends inside of Facebook, so maybe I can give a little inside baseball there. But love to hear your thoughts as, they're trying to figure it out, and we haven't seen a new model from them in a while. You know?
Sam Nadler [19:13]: Yeah. I think it's just Zuck is moving quickly, and he prob there was probably some org changes that better aligned with kind of once everyone got in the door, what direction they were gonna take and to make the org structure reflect, those new decisions and to move fast. That's kinda how I'm interpreting these changes. But, well, what'd you hear on the inside?
Jordan Metzner [19:37]: I just think there's some cultural issues I've heard. I mean, I've read it as well, like cultural issues against, some of these, new engineers making so much money, and then there's all these other folks who've been at, Facebook and Meta for a long time. Not to say they don't get paid well. I'm sure they get paid really well. But, when you know the guy next to you is making $250,000,000 a year or even if that's over four years, like, you look at your comp and you say, like, well, maybe I'm not earning enough. So I think, on a basketball court or on a soccer field, I think most of the players recognize pretty easily Lionel's better you know, Messi's better than them or LeBron's better than them. But, in the product development world and the building of apps and software engineering, there are some things that you can be done to quantify, who's better than somebody else. But I think it becomes harder and the line gets blurred and people feel like, maybe there's like the haves and have nots or, maybe there's kind of some fiefdom or kingdoms being built. You know?
Sam Nadler [20:37]: Got it. But, yeah, that makes sense. Anything else top of mind in the news today?
