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Re: Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week

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Post by blsapologist42 »

jackmott42 wrote: post #159

Back in ~2016 I deleted my Facebook account, because it was a horrible place that brought out the worst in people. A few days ago someone alerted me that my account was live again and posting weight loss scams. So I logged in and changed my password and deleted my account again. Facebook tells you that it will take 30 days to delete your account. This is obviously user hostile bullshit. Meanwhile somehow the scammer…

To be fair, it's common for people to want to 'undelete' their account, so that's why they have a 30 day grace period. I can easily imagine the opposite situation where someone says deleting with no delay is 'user hostile bullshit'.

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Post by layer8 »

RestlessMind wrote: post #293
Ancalagon wrote: post #283

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nit: they did say "pay well" not "pay as well". "Pay well" might mean less than Meta but still at a comfortable level, subjectively.

Okay, let's start with "pay well" then. Edit: I cannot reply to barbazoo so will edit here - you still haven't provided me 5 names who "pay well".

You are not seriously claiming that there are less than 6 companies that “pay well”.

Re: Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week

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Post by blsapologist42 »

kjok wrote: post #253
jackmott42 wrote: post #159

Back in ~2016 I deleted my Facebook account, because it was a horrible place that brought out the worst in people. A few days ago someone alerted me that my account was live again and posting weight loss scams. So I logged in and changed my password and deleted my account again. Facebook tells you that it will take 30 days to delete your account. This is obviously user hostile bullshit. Meanwhile somehow the scammer…

> Everyone should quit, get ahead of the layoffs, useless company. Your work there makes the world a worse place. You can do better. This is everything I wanted to say about FB. Always wondered why so many talented folks (with PhDs) choose to work there.

My friend works there. In 2021 they made $1.5 million. Last year it was less I guess with the stock drop, but still, I can't fault them.

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Post by yifanl »

jayd16 wrote: post #233
pilarphosol wrote: post #210

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I think it’s hilarious that they went and changed their name to their worst idea. The term “metaverse” comes from Snow Crash , which is a dystopia. They would know this if they actually read.

Snow Crash is a a dystopia because of hyper capitalism not because of the metaverse. It's like worrying about space travel because 2001 had a runaway AI.

The metaverse did empower malicious advertisements to selectively target people (and put them in a coma) in Snow Crash iirc, so maybe it's really just a pivot deeper into that side of adtech.

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Post by RestlessMind »

rurp wrote: post #256
yodsanklai wrote: post #209

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Considering Meta is banned in China, I don't understand why there's even a question about this.

Because copying China isn't a great way to devise policy. China bans many things that are good and should remain protected in the US. I don't use Tiktok or have a strong opinion on it specifically, but I really disagree with the notion that we should reflexively ban things because China banned something similar first.

> Because copying China isn't a great way to devise policy

Sure but never copying China because "China bad" is also a bad policy. Sometimes, bullies only understand "tit for tat" language.

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Post by blsapologist42 »

supriyo-biswas wrote: post #297
megaman8 wrote: post #268

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i really don't understand why people don't like facebook. they're no worse than apple or your ISP (now they're truely evil). dissinfo? just unusubscribe or don't follow that account? do you really want facebook censoring everything you can see or don't see based on political correctness? or some other filter? and how is it "selling user data". I've always found this to be wholly inaccurate. it's targetted advertiseme…

> and how is it "selling user data". I've always found this to be wholly inaccurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo

Ctrl+F "sell" doesn't have any matches on that page. It seems like FB was using Onavo to spy on people for its own competitive advantage. That's obviously extremely shady and unethical but it's not the same thing as 'selling'.

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Post by complianceowl »

Facebook offered me $1.2M base pay, $500k in options, and $220k in relocation -- for a Sr. Front End Dev position. I sit down. Mark himself walks in, looks me straight in the eye and says, "Honey, Honey". I'm like, "What the--"

That's when I woke up and my wife was telling me, "Honey, Honey, you're going to be late for work."

Re: Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week

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Post by RestlessMind »

layer8 wrote: post #302
RestlessMind wrote: post #293

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay, let's start with "pay well" then. Edit: I cannot reply to barbazoo so will edit here - you still haven't provided me 5 names who "pay well".

You are not seriously claiming that there are less than 6 companies that “pay well”.

I never claimed that. Just want to know the actual alternatives to test OP's claim about well-paying companies which don't make world shittier.

Re: Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week

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Post by Ancalagon »

RestlessMind wrote: post #293
Ancalagon wrote: post #283

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nit: they did say "pay well" not "pay as well". "Pay well" might mean less than Meta but still at a comfortable level, subjectively.

Okay, let's start with "pay well" then. Edit: I cannot reply to barbazoo so will edit here - you still haven't provided me 5 names who "pay well".

"Better corp for the world" is subjective.

"Pay well" but maybe not quite as well as Meta, and for our purposes I am excluding other FAANGs (except Waymo, sort of I guess):

- Roblox

- LinkedIn

- Robinhood

- Databricks

- Bytedance

- Box

- Stripe

- Two Sigma

- Lyft

- Uber

- Instacart

- Cruise

- Doordash

- Waymo

- Airbnb

- Pinterest

Companies which imo have a more positive impact on the world than Meta:

- Waymo/Cruise (autonomous driving)

- LinkedIn - close call, but a more professional social network with the intent of matching employers with employees and taking most of their profits from the advertising of those jobs without influencing global politics

- Stripe - value comes from payments processing for companies big and small which is a valuable product in its own right

- Lyft/Uber - close call again, but I think the disruption of the taxi industry and the additional options for transportation have really revolutionized how many people get around day-to-day.

Re: Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week

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Post by BoorishBears »

hnav wrote: post #56
BoorishBears wrote: post #54

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Except Meta also filtered with the same filters they used to form an engineering org around serving ads. I have pretty extensive experience in the embedded Android space and have worked on products everyone here knows, Meta reached out to me very excitedly, and when I let the recruiter know I don't do Leetcode they assured me the coding phone screen was a merely a formality and I'd do great. It took all my willpower…

merging sorted lists is not a leetcode nightmare interview question though, if you can't manage it in an interview, chances are you can't program very well IMO

I saw the question, and thought maybe the recruiter was being literal about it being a formality...

So I asked "is a naive implementation fine"? The answer was a quizzical "... well I guess we could start there? But we're probably going to need at least and preferably get to ", so I wrote out a completely naive implementation and switched to questions.

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But you're right, I can't program. Not memorizing elaborate cache-unfriendly vectorization-unfriendly algorithms has made me unhirable.

There was a reason they were excited to talk to me, and I thought it was an impressive career of programming to solve hard problems that started from writing assembly games for calculators in middle school... but who knows, maybe it was my charming smile?

Luckily my smile got me hired by a company that's paying me a FAANG salary but hasn't had to lay off thousands (knock on wood)

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