> Conversely, Meta is ruthless about cutting those management identifies as low performers.

Thats what the normal Meta up-or-out promo/comp structure is for. This sort of thing hasn't been about that for a while. Sure, they will say they stack ranked the company and fired the bottom 10%, but given how many layoffs they've done, at this point it's just an ongoing brain drain.

(I departed when the writing was on the wall for the '21 layoffs)