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Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

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Re: Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

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Post by operatingthetan »

pembrook wrote: post #600
operatingthetan wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've contracted at several big tech companies and that other commenter is making stuff up. My experience was similar to yours, the engineers were very productive on impactful projects. I'm sure there is some dead weight in every company, but it's the exception not the norm.

It sounds like you have financial incentives motivating your desire to shape opinions on this issue. I already exited big tech so I'm able to be candid. But don't worry, giant companies aren't going to stop your gravy train, they already know you're not highly "productive" and "impactful." That's the point. If you were actually important to the organization it would be a terrible mismanagement of the company. A well-…

I don't work at the company that enabled that access anymore, so nice try. Frankly this was a poor attempt at a character attack.

Re: Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

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Post by officerk »

sharadov wrote: post #755

As much as I hate Zuck - he's a ballsy CEO, he makes big bets, some work and some don't. Instagram and Whatsapp did! Heck in Asia and Latin America entire economies use Whatsapp for transacting business.

You might want to read Sarah-Wynn Willams 'Careless People' or listen to one of her interviews. Your opinion about him might change.

Re: Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

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Post by wil421 »

Tarq0n wrote: post #576
Jensson wrote: post #399

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All of those government organizations are under the same management: the government. Subsidiaries are still under the management of the parent firm.

That's not how it works in many countries. You can have regional governments that raise their own taxes and aren't beholden to the central government organizationally, just legally.

This is how it works in the US. Federal/State/County/City.

Re: Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

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Post by vishalontheline »

joe_mamba wrote: post #717
vishalontheline wrote: post #706

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Pretty easy. Get them to talk about a project they've managed and start poking holes. Who was on the team? How did they organize meetings? What were the bottlenecks? How well did everyone get along? What did they do to help grease the gears? Did they have to change the process? How did they like the software? Which software did they use? Did they have to administer it themselves? How did they deal with management cha…

From witching other managers, and via LLMs, you can literally learn and interview prep for all those questions on and lie. It's not difficult.

People have a very difficult time keeping their story together, especially when they're asked a couple of questions that interview prep didn't cover.

Beyond that though, there's the probation period. If they can't do the job, they're supposed to be let go before they become permanent.

Trouble I see from most interviewers is a tendency of asking questions with a "right" answer. Those tend to be a lot easier to game. They then fallback on sorting applicants by pedigree - the old, "no one ever got fired for choosing IBM" method.

Then, they come back and rant about how PM's are trash, and Agile is trash, etc. etc.

Re: Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

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Post by screye »

lmm wrote: post #565
screye wrote: post #267

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Meta has 4 identical products, most of which have reached feature complete. They do few things, and make absurd amounts of money from it. Google, MSFT and Apple do a lot more and most of their products have large feature backlogs. Different scenarios

The only part of Google that makes money is their ads business. And Meta is beating them at it.

Google makes money on ads, because its products span the entire internet.

Youtube, Gmail, Search, Maps, Android, Devices, Photos and Drive are how they get the data to make money on ads. Cloud, Android & Youtube would be a 2 trillion dollar company even without Google. They don't make money on these, because they don't need to make money on it.

Re: Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

wrigby wrote: post #817
disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #562

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Meta was over hiring engineers from about 2015, if we're being honest.

This is true, I just didn't want to admit it as someone who joined after 2015 but before 2021...

Honestly, every one after about 2014 was too many (I joined in 2013).

There was an old all hands I watched in 2014 where Sheryl talked about how around 8k was the largest they should ever get.

More generally I think that while sales scales linearly, engineering and product should probably be sub linear.

Re: Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

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Post by elektronika »

darth_avocado wrote: post #108
BurningFrog wrote: post #43

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It's well known since ancient times that money doesn't buy happiness.

That’s just what people with money tell the people without money to stop them from rioting. We have research that suggests that money indeed does buy happiness. https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/does-money-buy-h... There are exceptions of course. Some people are just predisposed to being unhappy no matter the circumstances, but generally speaking more money directly correlates to increased life contentment.

> Specifically, for the least happy group, happiness rises with income until $100,000, then shows no further increase as income grows. For those in the middle range of emotional well-being, happiness increases linearly with income, and for the happiest group the association actually accelerates above $100,000.

Exactly. There are other things you can do to be happy and some personalities are simply miserable, but there's nobody who's better off with less money. I'd be curious to see if this holds in societies with better social safety nets for whom money isn't as directly tied to survival or options in how to live.

Re: Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

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Post by ramon156 »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #788

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> no DDlS on blogger

Can you explain what you mean?

Re: Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

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Post by Oras »

weezing wrote: post #549

On the other hand 8000 people can potentially do some jobs meaningful to society.

The tech job market is in dark state now, really not much options to choose “meaningful”.

I feel for the those who will hear the bad news, whether meta or other companies, and I hope they will cope and get other roles

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