Meta warns employees of ‘serious times’ in internal memo
by Mia Sato from The Verge - All Posts on (#60YP4)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meta is warning of serious times" and preparing for a leaner second half of 2022, according to an internal memo circulated to employees this week. The note comes from chief product officer Chris Cox and outlines the company's priorities and challenges to its business going forward.
I have to underscore that we are in serious times here and the headwinds are fierce," Cox wrote in the memo obtained by The Verge and published in full below. We need to execute flawlessly in an environment of slower growth, where teams should not expect vast influxes of new engineers and budgets."
The biggest revenue challenge comes from privacy changes affecting Meta's ad business and macroeconomic pressures, Cox says in the memo, which was first reported...