‘A Rotten Company Culture’ — Memoir From Former Facebook Official Arrives Next Week

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A “searing” insider account of Meta’s company culture is slated to arrive on Tuesday. Careless People is subtitled “A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism” and is written by Sarah Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of global public policy at Facebook. Wynn-Williams left in 2018, before the company’s rebrand as Meta, and worked at the social media giant for “seven critical years.”

The book is “a deeply personal account of why and how things have gone so horribly wrong in the past decade—told in a sharp, candid, and utterly disarming voice,” according to publisher Flatiron Books. It’s available to preorder now from bookstores like Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.

While books are typically announced months in advance, publisher Flatiron kept Careless People under tight wraps, announcing the book less than a week before its publication date. The URL of the Amazon listing of the book, for example, is simply “Untitled-Flatiron-Author-Revealed-March.”

Details on the book’s contents are scant, but the publisher’s notes detail a “rotten company culture” and “shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards.” According to the Instagram post from Flatiron Books announcing the book, “Careless People reveals the truth about the executives Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Joel Kaplan as callously indifferent to the price others would pay for their own enrichment.”

Additionally, the book includes personal accounts from Wynn-Williams. “She experiences the challenges and humiliations of working motherhood within a pressure cooker of a workplace, all while Sheryl Sandberg urges her and others to ‘lean in,'” according to Flatiron.

According to her bio on the World Economic Forum, Wynn-Williams is a diplomat, policy expert, and international lawyer, with previous roles including serving as the Chief Negotiator for the United Nations on biosafety liability.