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Last week: Post surfaces saying that on 3/14 there'd be a mass layoff of managers & directors. Many people react that no way is this true

3/14: Zuck posts that they're making their orgs "flatter", in other words laying off a bunch of managers & directors

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Not sure what thread you're referring to. I suppose maybe some people did think this wouldn't happen? But Zuckerberg publicly announced he was doing this flattening over a month ago. (Though we didn't the numbers until now.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35100251

Or, if you prefer:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-07/meta-is-s...

Seems like people were only skeptical of the specific dates given by an anonymous Blind user, just on the basis that it's an anonymous user. That's likely a good thing, even if it happened to be accurate!

They weren't skeptical that layoffs were coming aimed at a flattening, which makes sense since this was already announced by Zuckerberg over a month ago.

There were threads here, Reddit, and elsewhere. IIRC all pointing back to Blind. What I mention wasn't a universal opinion and apologies if I made it sound that way. But there was a much stronger segment than I would have expected thinking it was all a bunch of made up FUD

I don't think this is line managers and their managers. I'm reading this as the people in the 5 levels above THEM, but below Zuck.

Those are called managers and directors.

I thought those are SVPs, EVPs, etc? "Manager" tends to be line managers, and Directors _their_ managers.

In many places you have 1-2 levels of regular managers, 1-2 levels of senior managers, then directors, maaaybe the first level of VP.

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