Facebook will hire 10k new employees in an effort to build the metaverse
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Re: Facebook will hire 10k new employees in an effort to build the metaverse
#2I thought Instagram had like 11 people? Whatsapp had like 47 right?
If you add Facebook and Messenger like 200 should do it.
Re: Facebook will hire 10k new employees in an effort to build the metaverse
#3I thought Instagram had like 11 people? Whatsapp had like 47 right? If you add Facebook and Messenger like 200 should do it.
This is an interesting point. The fact that they need 10k people to work on this makes them more like a government putting on a make work project than a company doing R&D. They'd be better off funding 1000 10-person startups working in VR, or just buying or copying one when / if it gets traction.
Related, I can see some appeal of getting to work at a small group doing development in a new area. It's got to be much harder to attract talent who know they are joining as a cog in a 10,000 person centrally planned effort
Re: Facebook will hire 10k new employees in an effort to build the metaverse
#4I thought Instagram had like 11 people? Whatsapp had like 47 right? If you add Facebook and Messenger like 200 should do it.
This is an interesting point. The fact that they need 10k people to work on this makes them more like a government putting on a make work project than a company doing R&D. They'd be better off funding 1000 10-person startups working in VR, or just buying or copying one when / if it gets traction. Related, I can see some appeal of getting to work at a small group doing development in a new area. It's got to be much ha…
What's most wild about this is that they're doing this big of a hiring push for a new offering, in just one region of the world.
It's obvious Facebook sees the metaverse as the next big platform, and they want to own it the way Apple and Google own mobile today.
Re: Facebook will hire 10k new employees in an effort to build the metaverse
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is an interesting point. The fact that they need 10k people to work on this makes them more like a government putting on a make work project than a company doing R&D. They'd be better off funding 1000 10-person startups working in VR, or just buying or copying one when / if it gets traction. Related, I can see some appeal of getting to work at a small group doing development in a new area. It's got to be much ha…
What's most wild about this is that they're doing this big of a hiring push for a new offering, in just one region of the world. It's obvious Facebook sees the metaverse as the next big platform, and they want to own it the way Apple and Google own mobile today.
Now that I think about if, maybe this is just about buying some goodwill in europe by creating jobs?
Re: Facebook will hire 10k new employees in an effort to build the metaverse
#6I thought Instagram had like 11 people? Whatsapp had like 47 right? If you add Facebook and Messenger like 200 should do it.
This is an interesting point. The fact that they need 10k people to work on this makes them more like a government putting on a make work project than a company doing R&D. They'd be better off funding 1000 10-person startups working in VR, or just buying or copying one when / if it gets traction. Related, I can see some appeal of getting to work at a small group doing development in a new area. It's got to be much ha…
Well in the 90s when the web was new, centralized players like AOL and Compuserve were where the users found an on-ramp to the Internet. I think of Facebook as the AOL of today's web, and they want to be the AOL of tomorrow's VR/AR mixed media metaverse. But hopefully the masses of users will grow past this next "AOL" and find their way to the VR/XR decentralized Web. This is yet to be determined...
Re: Facebook will hire 10k new employees in an effort to build the metaverse
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is an interesting point. The fact that they need 10k people to work on this makes them more like a government putting on a make work project than a company doing R&D. They'd be better off funding 1000 10-person startups working in VR, or just buying or copying one when / if it gets traction. Related, I can see some appeal of getting to work at a small group doing development in a new area. It's got to be much ha…
What's most wild about this is that they're doing this big of a hiring push for a new offering, in just one region of the world. It's obvious Facebook sees the metaverse as the next big platform, and they want to own it the way Apple and Google own mobile today.
> It's obvious Facebook sees the metaverse as the next big platform
I could see it- with business conferences and business travel, remote work etc. But I'd rather this go to Skype for business or zoom or linkedin etc or basically anyone else than Facebook.
Re: Facebook will hire 10k new employees in an effort to build the metaverse
#8I thought Instagram had like 11 people? Whatsapp had like 47 right? If you add Facebook and Messenger like 200 should do it.
A better question: could you find ten thousand qualified people in 2021 who really want to go through 4 rounds of interviews with a company that's quantitatively proven to promote human misery?
Re: Facebook will hire 10k new employees in an effort to build the metaverse
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's most wild about this is that they're doing this big of a hiring push for a new offering, in just one region of the world. It's obvious Facebook sees the metaverse as the next big platform, and they want to own it the way Apple and Google own mobile today.
Now that I think about if, maybe this is just about buying some goodwill in europe by creating jobs?
Seems like a likely reason why they’re doing this, wasn’t the whistleblower supposed to testify in Europe? Convenient timing. They’re likely trying to bribe the EU here with the promise of jobs.
Re: Facebook will hire 10k new employees in an effort to build the metaverse
#10I thought Instagram had like 11 people? Whatsapp had like 47 right? If you add Facebook and Messenger like 200 should do it.
A better question: could you find ten thousand qualified people in 2021 who really want to go through 4 rounds of interviews with a company that's quantitatively proven to promote human misery?
Of course they will. A lot of people will gladly accept FAANG salary and then bend backwards to rationalize it. Or they just simply don't care.
Four rounds of interviews is not a problem if you are good at what you are doing and only need to visit 2-3 companies to get the offer you want.
It only becomes a problem if you need to visit a lot of companies and I suspect that is where a lot of complaints come from.