- Mark Zuckerberg directly oversees a “basic army” of 25 to 30 lieutenants in Meta And largely counts on them to manage themselves. In a conversation with Stripe president, John Collison, Zuckerberg said he had not had regular individual meetings with one of the employees he supervises.
Mark Zuckerberg promotes a “non -hierarchical” structure in Meta and only directly manages a “small group” of 25 to 30 employees.
Zuckerberg discussed his management style With President Stripe John Collison during the company’s scratch sessions In San Francisco, revealing how many people he manages and his opinions on individual meetings.
“I think that if you are going to report, you must be able to manage,” said Meta CEO during the interview, adding that he had not made individual meetings with the people who report to him. “But I believe that for the rest of the business, management is a little important and it is an important way for people to grow.”
Zuckerberg added: “When I say that I don’t run out, I don’t have a recurring head, I constantly talk to all these people, more than they want to talk to me, I am sure. But I do it when I have something I want to talk to them, or if they want to talk to me, I generally try to keep a piece of time open.”
Zuckerberg is not the only leader in technology to make a regular development with staff members.
Despite around 60 direct reports, the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, also says that he has no regular meetings with them, arguing that they slow down the flow of information and create a useless hierarchy.
Instead, Huang said he was communicating widely, gives ad hoc comments and only meets in private if employees need him, how it will “drop everything”.
“Core Army” by Zuckerberg
For his direct team, Zuckerberg said that he supervises a group which he calls “ironically” “small group” even if it was made up of 25 to 30 people.
“I invest a lot of time to make sure that there is a group that is very connected to each other and which has the whole context of what is happening,” he said, adding that the team worked as a “basic army that can do everything in the business”.
“I really try to minimize the permanent meetings, so I do two things every week with this small group … There is a discussion on the open strategy, then I go through our … An operational meeting where I go through the priorities of the company,” he added.
Zuckerberg said that Meta’s work has been organized in approximately fifteen distinct product divisions, covering basic applications such as Facebook and Instagram, its advertising engine and emerging areas such as virtual and increased reality.
Each division is supervised by a senior executive with teams focused on the applications that fall under Chris Cox, META product manager, cross -cutting functions managed by Javier Olivan, the chief of exploitation and groups exploring the technologies of tomorrow – AR / VR, research on AI and other advanced initiatives – A -T -to -Newing to CTO Andrew Bosworth.
Meta “flat” structure
Zuckerberg has been working on the flattening of the Meta hierarchy for years to stimulate efficiency through the company.
In March 2023, Zuckerberg declared a “year of efficiency” in Meta, which aimed to remove several layers of management within the company to accelerate decision -making.
During this year, Meta announced its intention to eliminate around 10,000 roles as part of its flattening effort.
Consequently, many intermediate level managers have been invited to move to roles of individual contributors to reduce hands and latency in the flow of information.
Meta did not immediately respond to a request for a comment from Fortune.
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