Meta员工极度厌恶扎克伯格的全公司AI黑客马拉松计划

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Meta员工极度厌恶扎克伯格的全公司AI黑客马拉松计划

内容来源:https://www.wired.com/story/meta-employees-absolutely-hate-mark-zuckerbergs-hackathon-idea/

内容总结:

Meta内部AI黑客马拉松引发员工不满:裁员后工作超负荷,无心参与创新活动

据《WIRED》获取的内部消息显示,Meta首席执行官马克·扎克伯格于上周五宣布下月将举办一场全公司范围的“大规模”AI黑客马拉松,此举迅速在员工中引发沮丧与质疑。多名员工在内部留言中表示,近期公司大规模裁员导致工作负担激增,根本无暇参与此类额外活动。有员工写道:“我连维持团队基本运转都疲于奔命,既没动力也没时间参加。”另一些人则指出,当前公司士气低落、对管理层信任度下滑,使他们不愿投身其中。

这场黑客马拉松定于7月14日至16日举行,聚焦“人工智能创新”。产品管理副总裁伊梅·阿奇邦在发布活动详情后,立即遭到员工激烈反对,留言区充斥着愤怒回应和讽刺表情包。一名员工指出,在同事被裁、人手缩减的情况下,员工不得不承担更多工作,同时还要避免因不当使用AI引发严重技术故障,“我不确定公司是否还支持黑客马拉松文化”。该评论获得超200个点赞和爱心回应。

许多员工质疑,参加黑客马拉松的成果不计入绩效评估,这意味着他们需搁置本职工作去参与,却得不到任何考核回报。有人借用喜剧电影《冒牌家庭》的梗制作表情包:“你们居然有时间参加黑客马拉松?”一名资深员工坦言:“老实说,我根本没精力关注这个,而公司期望我百分百投入常规工作。以前我参加过,但现在在团队冲刺压力下,这已不现实。”另一名员工则批评这是“令人失望的文化转变”,称“我不觉得有足够的安全感去花时间搞黑客马拉松创新”。

Meta对此不予置评。据悉,这是自上月裁员8000人以来,首次全公司范围内的黑客马拉松活动。尽管有软件工程元老鼓励全员参与,但员工反击称:“每个部门都有极其激进的目标,要求效率提升,人手却大幅减少,根本没时间兼顾其他。”扎克伯格还试图通过增加团队外出预算、取消部分办公区的共享工位制度来提振士气,但去年已有员工联合调查称,取消固定工位反而造成了混乱和效率下降。裁员虽腾出了办公空间,却让员工更加无暇参与创新活动。

中文翻译:

Meta CEO马克·扎克伯格上周五发布内部公告,宣布将于下月举办一场“大型”全公司AI黑客马拉松。这一消息迅速在员工中引发沮丧和质疑。
据《连线》杂志获得的内部信息显示,部分员工表示,近期这家科技巨头大规模裁员后,新增的工作职责已让他们无暇参与此类辅助活动。另一些人则认为,公司整体士气低落、对管理层信任度下降,这使他们对参与活动意兴阑珊。
“我光是维持团队正常运转就已经焦头烂额,”一名员工上周五写道,“别说抽时间参加,我根本没有任何动力参与。”
在一份面向Meta约7万名员工的声明中,扎克伯格将黑客马拉松描述为公司在内部普遍动荡时期增进团队情谊的方式。Meta产品管理副总裁伊姆·阿奇邦随后补充了活动细节,称活动将于7月14日至16日举行,主题“完全聚焦AI创新”。
阿奇邦的帖子迅速招致多名员工的反对,他们用愤怒留言和讽刺表情包作出回应。“我不确定这家公司还支持黑客马拉松文化,”一名员工在获得超过200个点赞和爱心表情的评论中写道,“在同事被裁的同时,人们被要求用更少的支持完成更多工作,还得避免因不当使用AI引发SEV1(严重技术错误)的风险。”
该员工还指出,黑客马拉松的成果不计入绩效评估,这加剧了员工对搁置其他项目参与活动的抵触情绪。
数十人对一张改编自喜剧电影《冒牌家庭》的表情包点赞或发笑,上面写着:“你们都有时间参加黑客马拉松?”
“老实说,我根本没时间关注这个,而且我还得100%投入常规工作,”另一名员工写道,“我参加过之前的黑客马拉松,但如今在我负责的板块里,这根本不可能兼顾团队冲刺任务。”
第三名员工则谴责他们所说的“令人失望的文化转变”,因为“我不认为大家有足够的安全感来花时间搞黑客马拉松创新。”
Meta拒绝对本文置评。
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Meta长期以来一直举办内部黑客马拉松,但两位知情人士向《连线》透露,这将是上月裁员8000人以来的首次全公司范围活动。
一名Meta软件工程资深员工回应部分抱怨称,鼓励所有人参与。但这番话并未完全奏效。“我了解的所有部门都有极其激进的目标,要求提升效率的同时人手大幅减少,”一名员工评论道,“根本没时间关注其他方面。”
这场黑客马拉松是扎克伯格上周五提出的重振团队士气、回应近期裁员等内部批评的举措之一。他表示将增加团队外出团建预算,并取消部分办公室的“办公桌轮用制”(即非全职在岗员工需共享工位)。
据一位不愿具名、因讨论敏感内容而匿名的知情人士透露,去年部分员工曾联合发起内部调查,了解工位被撤除后造成的混乱及效率损失。该团体敦促管理层恢复每名员工独立工位的制度。裁员似乎腾出了空间,却也压缩了参与黑客马拉松的时间。

英文来源:

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s internal announcement on Friday about a “large” companywide AI hackathon next month quickly sparked frustration and disbelief among employees.
In internal messages seen by WIRED, some workers wrote that added responsibilities in the wake of recent mass layoffs at the tech giant had left them with little time to join such ancillary activities. Others said they felt discouraged from participating because of what they viewed as low morale and declining trust in management across the company.
“I’m literally preoccupied with keeping the lights on for my team,” one employee wrote on Friday. “I have no incentive to participate, let alone have the time to do so.”
In a post shared to Meta’s roughly 70,000 employees, Zuckerberg framed the hackathon as a way for staff to build camaraderie at a time of widespread internal unrest. Ime Archibong, a vice president of product management at Meta, later shared additional details about the event, which he said would take place from July 14 to July 16 and focus “exclusively on AI Innovation.”
Archibong’s post drew swift pushback from several employees, who responded with angry messages and sarcastic memes. “I’m not sure that this company supports a hackathon culture anymore,” one employee wrote in a comment that drew more than 200 thumbs-up and heart reactions. “People are being asked to cover more work with less support while their colleagues get laid off, while also trying to avoid the risk of causing SEV1s [serious technical errors] with incautious AI use.”
The same employee alleged that hackathon efforts would not count toward performance evaluations, fueling frustration among the workers about the prospect of setting aside other projects to participate.
Dozens of people also reacted with laughs and thumbs-up to a meme inspired by the comedy film We’re the Millers, stating, “You all have the time for a hackathon?”
“I honestly don’t have the time to focus on this, and I’m expected to be 100% devoted” to regular work, another employee wrote. “I’ve participated in previous hackathons but this no longer feels like an option alongside pod sprints in my corner of the company.”
A third staffer called out what they described as “a disappointing change in culture” because “I don’t believe there is sufficient feeling of safety to spend time on hackathon innovations.”
Meta declined to comment for this story.
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Meta has long hosted internal hackathons, but two sources tell WIRED this is the first companywide one to take place since 8,000 people were laid off last month.
A Meta software engineering veteran responded to some of the employee complaints by saying that everyone is encouraged to participate. But the message still didn’t quite land. “Every org I know has super aggressive goals, with efficiency gains expected and significantly less staffing,” an employee commented back. “There’s less time for focusing on other axis.”
The hackathon was one of several initiatives Zuckerberg laid out on Friday to reenergize his workforce and address internal criticism about the recent layoffs and other concerns. He said budgets for team offsites would increase and that the concept of hot desking, or workers only in the office part of the time having to share desks, would be done away with in some offices.
Last year, some workers banded together to survey colleagues about the removal of their desks and the chaos and loss productivity they believe it caused, according to a person familiar with the efforts who sought anonymity to describe sensitive discussions. The group urged management to return to every employee having their own space. The layoffs appear to have opened up room, while leaving less time to hack.

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