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

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saagarjha wrote: post #342
throwawaylinux wrote: post #90

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I think Musk is a breath of fresh air from the sterile, managed, corporate-speak drones. He already proved a lot of... "experts" wrong about the imminent implosion of twitter after he got rid of a bunch of people. I'm very interested to see how things go in the next few years. Here's his side of the story on that. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633011448459964417 I have worked in companies with a lot of dead wo…

Corpspeak sucks and Twitter probably had more people than it needed. That being said, the solution to that is definitely not to hire someone who decides the final word for an exec is to post offensive memes on your account and shame individual employees after you fire thousands of them. The cuts weren’t quite random, but they were pretty haphazard, and a large part of why Twitter is still standing today is the work t…

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

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Post by gymbeaux »

orvitinn wrote: post #97
gymbeaux wrote: post #87

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Watching a grown man beg Elon musk for his job on a social media platform is not something I expected to ever see. It's been two weeks- if his paycheck didn't come through, he has his answer. Obviously a s-show led by Elon, but on LinkedIn especially I am seeing a lot of posts where these ex-FAANG employees, who usually score severance measured in months rather than days or weeks, and who were already raking in a $25…

> Watching a grown man beg Elon musk for his job But that is not what is happening here at all.

Sure it is. He was asking Elon whether he still had a job, after being locked out of his account and not being paid for 2+ weeks, then he tweeted a litany of contributions he was making to the company to sell himself to Elon, whether that was his intent or not.

I'm not defending Elon, the whole thing has been a dumpster fire.

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

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Post by gymbeaux »

ROTMetro wrote: post #296
gymbeaux wrote: post #87

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Watching a grown man beg Elon musk for his job on a social media platform is not something I expected to ever see. It's been two weeks- if his paycheck didn't come through, he has his answer. Obviously a s-show led by Elon, but on LinkedIn especially I am seeing a lot of posts where these ex-FAANG employees, who usually score severance measured in months rather than days or weeks, and who were already raking in a $25…

I'm out of date but in the past if your company was acquired and you were retained, you had to stay X years at the new company in order for the acquisition to be considered complete and you to get your complete payout. Dude probably wanted to know am I actually fired, because, then you need to, you know, pay me for my company? Elon tried to ghost dude, but old boy's got receipts is my guess. Elon just spent $$$ to sa…

I agree. The Twitter exchange was cringey from both sides nonetheless.

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

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Post by gymbeaux »

saagarjha wrote: post #344
gymbeaux wrote: post #87

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Watching a grown man beg Elon musk for his job on a social media platform is not something I expected to ever see. It's been two weeks- if his paycheck didn't come through, he has his answer. Obviously a s-show led by Elon, but on LinkedIn especially I am seeing a lot of posts where these ex-FAANG employees, who usually score severance measured in months rather than days or weeks, and who were already raking in a $25…

I’m not sure why you find it strange that people who have lost their jobs look to their network for support?

It's strange. I know the colloquial wisdom is that it's not only NOT strange, but a good idea... but it's strange. It's usually ex-FAANG who are likely millionaires from a net-worth perspective, who were given weeks or months of severance, who would realistically have little trouble finding another job given their resume, yet they will compose a giant LinkedIn post about how woe is them and they need help finding another job - before they've even lifted a finger to find a job themselves. It belies everything they purport to be (e.g. "good enough to get a job at FAANG"- churned leetcode to pass the interviews, etc.), if you ask me.

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Post by par »

latchkey wrote: post #315
par wrote: post #206

Gotta be honest, as someone working at Meta right now, every week to hear rumors and 'articles' about being laid off, it sucks. :(

I'm not too worried for you though. https://twitter.com/par_dot_dev/status/1620848852508213248

busted!

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

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Post by elforce002 »

JCharante wrote: post #211
ChatGTP wrote: post #136

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Instagram has gotten to the point where I just have absolutely no interest to continue using it. Mostly it feeds me soft porn, and my friends have kind of posted the same things over and over, which has become kind of boring. Food pics, workout pics, whatever. It's gotten to the point where I'm just actually bored with the platform in general, not necessarily the content. Facebook, I just have zero interest in going…

I follow aviation related accounts so I see pictures of planes on my feed. I did have to stop following hashtags because people tend to spam bikini pics there

I don't even bother with it anymore.

At least TikTok is giving me things I search for.

I have +5 years without fb so that's that.

Twitter serves its purpose for (news, articles, etc...).

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Post by Ancalagon »

MikusR wrote: post #337
Ancalagon wrote: post #309

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"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 (…

Roblox? This Roblox? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32014754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28247034

I never said it was a better company than Meta?

Just that it paid similarly.

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

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Post by Ancalagon »

saberience wrote: post #350
RestlessMind wrote: post #308

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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.

Could also go and work for a hedgefund, pays well or better than Meta and doesn't have a negative impact on the world.

That depends entirely what the hedgefund is investing in
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