lol the eternal currency of Silicon Valley.
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JUST IN: Meta’s CTO says morale is near “the worst it’s ever been” — leadership will offer increased snack budgets to lift spirits.
8:16 AM · Jun 17, 2026 · 16.1K Views
Meta CTO reports employee morale is near historic lows, prompting leadership to propose boosting workplace snack budgets
Story Overview
Meta's CTO described current employee morale as among the lowest in two decades during an internal session, tying the dip to recent layoffs and bumpy AI reorganization efforts, after which leadership floated bigger budgets for office snacks and related perks to lift the mood.
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Layoffs fuel the unrest
The comments surfaced right after Meta cut roughly 8,000 roles, with internal notes also calling the AI team reshuffle handling atrocious and leaving many staff unsettled about stability.
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Perks get a modest bump
Follow-up moves include higher allowances for travel, events, and microkitchen snacks, though exact figures and direct ties to the morale talk remain unspecified in available reports.
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Many users mocked Meta's snack budget increases amid record low morale as superficial perks that dismiss real employee concerns and fail to address underlying issues.
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Daniel@growing_daniel
Late stage tech serfdom
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Meta’s CTO says morale is near “the worst it’s ever been” — leadership will offer increased snack budgets to lift spirits.
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NeonNoodle 🍜@NeonNoodle22
@growing_daniel when you can't copy Elon's homework anymore
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Chris Albon@chrisalbon
The real winner here is Popcorners, which as far as I can tell comes free with every open office layout
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Meta’s CTO says morale is near “the worst it’s ever been” — leadership will offer increased snack budgets to lift spirits.
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o.o@clifcode
@growing_daniel the company town got kombucha and called it freedom
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gabriel@g_br_l
@growing_daniel just eat your snacks and stfu pleb
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Kike Miralles@kimiralles
@growing_daniel The snacks will continue until morale improves
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Cliff Booth@CBoothStuntman
@growing_daniel universal basic charcuterie
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Mark Rafferty@markraff
@growing_daniel
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Chris von Csefalvay 🔜 CVPR26@epichrisis
@sarahookr Look. Not everybody can be a cool neolab with really great graphics, the rest have to play with what they have :)
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ipghost@ipghost00
@growing_daniel with what the average meta employee is earning, the rest of us genuinely don't care how much they suffer at their laptops 🤷♂️
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Kirill Zubovsky@kirillzubovsky
@growing_daniel It sounds like you need a snack
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ᗪᕮᐯᑕOᑎ@Damson7878
@sarahookr Gm Sara
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Itay@SumoTail
@sarahookr if MZ give you 1B annual salary would you take it ? if the terms include MMA fight against MZ ?
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Patrick Baitman@taofanqq
@sarahookr Sam didn't increase snack budget and we all what happened to him
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Saylor@seylorra
@sarahookr $190k salary and still hearing "grab a Kind bar and get back to work"
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FenixWard@FenixWard
@growing_daniel Let them eat Skittles
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Nick Longrich@NickLongrich
@growing_daniel snackem et circusis, as the Romans would say
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Omar Ahmad@omzeepowa
@sarahookr Retaining is one thing - how will they attract people to work there?
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David A. Anderson@DavesBrewFarm
@sarahookr
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neorixy@neorixy
@sarahookr oh no not the snack budget shuffle lol
new hiring metric: cost per banana per eng
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