“Vice President” (VP) is a Bad Position Title in Software Companies

Advice to IT Founders: Avoid Status Job Titles.

Zhimin Zhan
5 min readJun 19, 2024

I read a news report today that Meta (Facebook) is planning to slash 50 Vice President (VP) positions.

Source: https://www.pymnts.com/meta/2024/report-meta-to-reduce-vp-positions-from-300-to-250/

The №1 objective, according to this article, is “to streamline operations and reduce costs”. In other words, Mark Zuckerberg, like many CEOs…

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Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.