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Mark Zuckerberg's Biggest Problem: Internal Tensions At Facebook Are Boiling Over
“It’s the bunker mentality. These people have been under siege for 600 days now. They’re getting tired, getting cranky — the only survival strategy is to quit or fully buy in.”
In a year teeming with scandals and missteps, Facebook’s latest fiasco has inspired a clutter of leaks, finger pointing, and internal conversations about the future of the company and its leadership. And after more than a year of bad press, internal tensions are reaching a boiling point and are now spilling out into public view.
[ . . . . ] Two former employees said the spate of negative reports has cast a shadow over the company in recent weeks. Current and former employees describe a tense and, at times, hostile atmosphere inside the company, one in which both senior employees and even staunch loyalists are contemplating their futures.
People are “hoping for a Sundar or Dara moment,” one former senior Facebook employee told BuzzFeed News, referring to past leadership changes at Google and Uber in which founding employees stepped aside from top jobs.
[ . . . . ] “It’s really seeped in the last few years,” another added. “Election season is always the worst too, 2020 will be another shit show.” A third user added, “In this company, if you tell the truth, you are dead.”
As a non Facebook user, I had no idea.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 06 2018, @03:26AM
Really? Anyone who has read anything about Zuck's early attempts at datamining, while still in college, should have an idea. To summarize, some douche little fuck was snooping and prying into everyone's personal lives, while pretending to give his victims a public forum. In conversations, Zuck pretty bluntly stated that people gave him data, because they are stupid. With a few years experience to learn how to cater to people's baser desires, yeah - we should have had an idea.
Unfortunately, Zuck was right. People are stupid.
https://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-users-dumb-fucks [gawker.com]