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Another Round of Layoffs at Meta

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Re: Another Round of Layoffs at Meta

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Post by yibg »

moomoo11 wrote: post #39
zactato wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who hurt you?

I’ve quit jobs before over awful managers. Nobody hurt me because for me at least, I’ve gotten every job I’ve applied to. For example I got bored of my last company and my manager, applied to four companies and got each job, then just picked the one that paid most. I don’t like dealing with incompetent people. It’s that simple. I’m not a bottom feeder lmao.

Congrats, everyone wants you and throw boat loads of money to get you. You're also the only competent person in a sea of incompetence. What would the world do without you?

Re: Another Round of Layoffs at Meta

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Post by piva00 »

airstrike wrote: post #16
mjfl wrote: post #3

Facebook is copying the blue check thing from Twitter. I wonder if Zuck will also copy firing 75% of the staff.. lol.

I mean, twitter.com seems to manage to continue running fine with only 25% of staff left. I'm sure others are looking at that and going "hmmm"

Bots are even more insidious than before, I deleted my account and now only use it to follow breaking news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and I constantly get errors, videos not loading, glitches on the page.

Not sure what you mean "running fine", I'm dreading opening Twitter links because it got so frustrating... It's attrition, it's slowly degrading.

It's definitely breaking, in my experience.

Re: Another Round of Layoffs at Meta

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Post by hinkley »

hansvm wrote: post #49
airstrike wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, twitter.com seems to manage to continue running fine with only 25% of staff left. I'm sure others are looking at that and going "hmmm"

Am I misremembering reading about a major prolonged outage a few days ago?

Each outage will get worse as the skeleton crew burns out.

I’m a fan of small focused teams. This ain’t how that happens.

Re: Another Round of Layoffs at Meta

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Post by gnicholas »

I find that my FB feed is roughly 50% ads. Sometimes there are two, or even three ads in a row. I barely use it anymore (and I've literally never clicked on an ad). I wonder why FB thinks people will use their product when it is half advertisements. People watch 21 mins of TV with 9 mins of commercials, and they would revolt if it were 15/15.

Re: Another Round of Layoffs at Meta

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Post by pavlov »

jdlyga wrote: post #55

It's interesting how Facebook's target audience is nearing retirement age, but Meta is going full steam ahead with futuristic VR headset technology. It seems like a real clash of ideas, but I could see this working out well to connect people especially older people who are retired, similar to the Black Mirror episode San Junipero (a surprisingly optimistic and happy episode). The problem is Meta's headsets have a ver…

Meta has a huge global teenage user base with Instagram and WhatsApp. TikTok complements them rather than replacing. All three are growing.

I don’t know how they’re going to translate that reach to VR profits either, but focusing on Facebook-using retirees misses the big picture of Meta’s growth.

Re: Another Round of Layoffs at Meta

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Post by moomoo11 »

yibg wrote: post #90
moomoo11 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, and I'm a staff+ level engineer who has worked at darling unicorns and big media/tech and made a ton of money. I earned that equity payoff. Now I'm working on my own projects and paying for myself to live in SF, so you're free to have whatever opinion. I know what I'm saying, and out of a dozen plus managers I've worked with over just the last 6 years (re-orgs because they have way too much time on their hands)…

This whole thing comes across as "I'm smart and everyone else is stupid".

Bloated and ineffective management is an issue though. I have quit companies because of it and so have quite a few of my friends.

Re: Another Round of Layoffs at Meta

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Post by tjpnz »

brucethemoose2 wrote: post #11

I would not invest in Meta's metaverse future. It feels like Windows Mobile. Meta has the early start, money, captive audience and enthusiasm, but they don't have the hardware/software edge (that Apple coincidentally also has this time around) to really make the idea work. The headsets are not going to revolutionize much running Facebook games on budget Qualcomm SoCs, and Facebook cant buy an Unreal Engine or an M2 P…

Could you imagine your Facebook using parents and grandparents donning a VR headset and regularly interacting with the metaverse? I couldn't, not unless the technology improved dramatically to the point where the headset more closely resembled glasses than yuppie techno goggles. I can't see that happening anytime soon, which is a problem if they're trying to build something with mainstream appeal.

Re: Another Round of Layoffs at Meta

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Post by chillwaves »

yibg wrote: post #91
moomoo11 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve quit jobs before over awful managers. Nobody hurt me because for me at least, I’ve gotten every job I’ve applied to. For example I got bored of my last company and my manager, applied to four companies and got each job, then just picked the one that paid most. I don’t like dealing with incompetent people. It’s that simple. I’m not a bottom feeder lmao.

Congrats, everyone wants you and throw boat loads of money to get you. You're also the only competent person in a sea of incompetence. What would the world do without you?

These replies are lazy. HN becoming reddit so you guys can feel smart or something.

Re: Another Round of Layoffs at Meta

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Post by ReptileMan »

htag wrote: post #4

I imagine Meta has a harder time recruiting then their peer companies, because of their reputation and the moral hazard. I wonder how much investment it will take them to get staff levels back to where they are now. It really feels like they are peaking as a company.

They are better than Apple and Google. Worse than new twitter. If I was to try and work for something - would be twitter. Seems like after all the self righteous people are out - it can have this old school atmosphere.
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