Managers at Meta have for years been promoted based on the size of the team they built.
With an ongoing slowdown in hiring at the company, managers will simply not be able to hire as much as they have in previous years.
Another worker commented that taking away team size as a promotion metric means "a manager's career is just up to their ability to navigate politics from now on."
For example, to become an engineering manager a person had to show they previously "accumulated" the right size team as a high-level engineer, as Insider previously reported.
The new decision to promote fewer managers will make the reduction in Meta's management ranks more permanent.
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