A Meta product leader said that employees are turning to the company's internal AI assistant for performance reviews.
Joseph Spisak, a product director in Meta Superintelligence Labs, said that the company's internal ChatGPT-style tool, Metamate, can search through employees' documents and generate summaries of their accomplishments.
"When at the end of the year we do our performance, and I want to summarize my performance or whatever, I call Metamate and it goes and searches all my docs and what I've done and summarizes what I've done for the year and my accomplishments and feedback on me," Spisak said onstage at the TechEquity AI Summit in Sunnyvale, California, on Friday. "And it's great."
Spisak joked that employees could "reward hack it," after a moderator asked whether they could bribe the system to boost their evaluations.
Spisak said that in addition to helping employees with performance reviews, Meta's AI tools are trained on internal data and used for other tasks, such as building applications.
Meta, like most Silicon Valley tech companies, has been increasingly integrating AI into its internal work — from Devmate, an AI coding assistant, to games and dashboards that track employee AI usage.
A Meta employee, who wished to remain anonymous, told Business Insider that while some staff members experiment with Metamate for performance reviews, its results can be uneven, and the AI often struggles without detailed context about individual projects. Still, the person said they use it to generate feedback for coworkers by setting up templates and filling in examples.
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