Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week

Post by Eddy_Viscosity2 » Tue, Mar 07, 2023, 1:33 PM UTC

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I love it when megacorps misinvest billions. Opens space for a competition that didn't.

It's actually kind of amazing that there's not any real consequence to making that bad call. It sucked up a lot of energy, lots of people tried to stake and early adopter position in the metaverse and it turns out everyone just didn't want that. I think they could have made more money if they built games into facebook. At probably a fraction of the cost really.

Post by yodsanklai » Tue, Mar 07, 2023, 1:43 PM UTC

ithkuil wrote: post #80

Panini_Jones wrote: post #25

I wonder what effects this uncertainty will have on an organizational system. With multiple rounds of layoffs, talks of 'flattening', projects being cancelled, internal transfers being frozen, hiring being frozen, when does an organization finally become 'healthy' again? When are the right people in the right places making the right decisions again? Does an organization that has so much capital need to even care abou…

> hiring being frozen I don't know when they made that decision but a recruiter contacted me from meta last week. I wonder how far do people go through the hiring pipeline before the "stop the engines" signal arrives. Hopefully not after the offer has been accepted.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 07, 2023, 1:53 PM UTC

aix1 wrote: post #82

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Normal programmers call the sort() method in their language of choice.

Call sort() to merge two sorted linked lists? (Which is what this sub-thread is discussing.)

Post by oblio » Tue, Mar 07, 2023, 1:57 PM UTC

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I think Meta really doesn't get the whole gaming console business. They got too excited with the technology for technology sake, and drank too much of the Snowcrash-esque kool-aid to realize that the most obvious target audience to drive meaningful usage is harcore gamers. And the novelty of Beat Saber will only go so far; you really need AAA titles and publishers. But this would mean investing heavily in tools and S…

> the most obvious target audience to drive meaningful usage is harcore gamers. And the novelty of Beat Saber will only go so far; you really need AAA titles and publishers. I really feel like what you need is omni-directional treadmills. I really like VR rhythm games, but for most other games beyond that feel like you really need some more natural way of moving around. The only exception to that would be things wher…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 07, 2023, 2:04 PM UTC

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zmmmmm wrote: post #88

Two rounds of layoffs seems to say something that one round doesn't. You would expect that all things being equal there is never a scenario where it is better to do two cuts instead of just one. So why? a) things were much worse than realised. Maybe but it would have to be a big shock coming because Meta's general performance has held up OK, certainly nothing that would warrant this. b) HR reasons? some sort of requi…

Could it be that since Twitter hasn't collapsed yet people are trying to pull a Musk headcount-wise (albeit in a better executed manner) ?