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Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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I legitimately cannot see this question in the current context as anything but being made in bad faith. Do you seriously struggle to think of possible reasons for why someone would want to work for Meta? Something like "high pay, interesting/difficult challenges and problems to work on, large scale rarely found elsewhere, and lots of learning opportunities (including loads of great engineers to learn from)" never cro…

> Do you seriously struggle to think of possible reasons for why someone would want to work for Meta? Yes, I struggle to think of a good reason to work for such a harmful company as Meta. People usually don't land there because of a desperate need for money, which would probably be one of the very few acceptable reasons for joining that company. And why should my question be in good faith? Why should we not call out…

Ah, so it was a bad faith question all along!

You only asked him his reason, so you could attack him for it.

Just go and say what you really meant, instead of pretending like you had anything to contribute in the first place.

That way, at least the reasonable people can see what you wrote, and hopefully get you deplatformed.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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Imagine being of IC7+ caliber and voluntarily deciding to jump on this sinking ship. I doubt such a person exists. Might be an opportunity to upsell yourself into an IC7[+] offer, though.

Money is still a good motivator

But meta is very stock compensation heavy so you are betting on the company stock at least not dropping considerably like the people that joined in august of last year at a $350 per a share price.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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> In prior moves to reduce spending, a dual-camera watch the company was building to compete with the Apple Watch was shuttered. loool > Meta is not the only advertising company to be hit by broader economic challenges. interesting they are referenced as advertising company..

who would buy a facebook watch? lol

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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CEOs are collectively hammering these talking points about the economy, pretending that it's 2008 all over again. They want their workers scared. The thing is, this isn't 2008, not by a long shot. They can keep complaining, but the jobs numbers speak for themselves.

If you think the world’s economy is in good shape, I have an investment to sell you.

You're responding to something I never discussed.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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If I were you I would tell them to break off contact because Meta is actively causing irreparable damage to society as we know it.

Yeah, and the reply they would receive from their friend would be a polite request to touch grass. People in the real world use instagram and whatsapp all the time without any moral qualms. The main reason facebook as a product is on a decline is because it is simply not interesting to younger people anymore. And even then, FB still manages to occasionally produce features that capture a lot of the audience back. FB…

Marketplace is getting to be a nightmare of scams on both the buyer and seller side.

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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Our startup spends a little bit on Facebook Ads (across FB, Instagram, etc). It's very clear over the past few months that there's trouble in the ads engine. Attribution is a mess, ad efficiency fluctuates randomly, the UI and API are flaky. I don't know whether this is a result of the ios privacy changes, the broader economy affecting ad spend, or internal issues... Maybe a mix. But it's clear that Meta's main reven…

They've gotten so damn greedy. On the mobile app literally over half my feed is ads.

Is over half your feed is labeled "Sponsored", or are you looking at other things as ads?

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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My heart goes out to anybody losing their job, but it's always fantastic to see bad things happening to Meta.

I wonder what the effects of Meta failing would have on society? I can’t think of competing social network for people to migrate to. Would topic forums see a rise in popularity again or would sites like Reddit draw in some of those users.

Something like this I'd guess

https://frinkiac.com/caption/S04E21/888169

Re: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

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> They want to change that by having people switching en masse to the Metaverse but I'm really not sure this is happening. The tech isn't even close to there yet. Current gen VR tech demos sparks the imagination, and it's definitely great for people that want to like it... But that's not even close to good enough for mass adoption. Their teased prototypes look like a solid upgrade, but it's still not going to be enou…

I walked in oculus for like 10 minutes, and I puked. The technology isn't ready.

Lots of people get car sick but nobody would say that the car isn't ready yet.
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