After getting kicked in the teeth by Apple, punched in the gut by Tiktok, and stock falling 60% from all time high, Zucc finally realizes that thousands of directors, senior directors, VPs, senior VPs, presidents, and C-suites don't actually do shit and all the work comes from the lowest levels of employees
Too bad all the Meta coders are wannabe capitalists themselves and look down on other working class people, including even their own
Zuckerberg is probably trying to do an anti-corruption purge of sorts to get rid of managers doing empire building
In every big company I've been in, there have been managers on the 5-8th level from the bottom that have literally <4 direct reports. But they're "responsible" for hundreds-thousands of people which looks great on their resume
Get rid of all these managers with <10-15 direct reports and you can probably chop off a whole 2-3 layers of management
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Working at a large company and on a team that does a lot of cross functional projects, the directive is constantly to get to “the single source of truth” while battling every director group that has demarcated its territory even if duplicative.
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100% even a cursory look at the last 10-15 years show that the pendulum has oscillated substantially but being such a large firm, each functional group often has a lot of autonomy because of operational needs.
Increases in capital investment lead to expanding org structures which are more difficult to shed once demand contracts.