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#31

Considering the greatly inflated tech wages in top companies, aren't those layoffs alone likely to impact the US economy?

FTA:

> While we’re making reductions in every organization across both Family of Apps and Reality Labs, some teams will be affected more than others. Recruiting will be disproportionately affected since we’re planning to hire fewer people next year. We’re also restructuring our business teams more substantially.

It's not all engineers let go.

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#32
So, after Twitter and Meta layoffs there will be around 15,000 people looking for the job. In one moment. With other layoffs it can be counted over 20,000 people IMHO. Will this over flood the market and bring expectations and salaries down?

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#33

Severance summary: Severance. We will pay 16 weeks of base pay plus two additional weeks for every year of service, with no cap. PTO. We’ll pay for all remaining PTO time. RSU vesting. Everyone impacted will receive their November 15, 2022 vesting. Health insurance. We’ll cover the cost of healthcare for people and their families for six months. Career services. We’ll provide three months of career support with an ex…

4 month's paid holiday? This is the kind of severance that would make me wish I'd been laid off.

No RSUs though, which make up 30-50% of compensation depending on level.

Re: Meta lays off 11,000 people

#34
Im really curious how severance in non-US jurisdictions works in these cases. Both stripe and Facebook are offering WAY more than required by UK law for example. Do they offer similar packages to any UK staff laid off? Or do they assume that with a better social safety net they can get away with just following their legal requirements?

Re: Meta lays off 11,000 people

#35
post #27

> I’ve decided to reduce the size of our team by about 13% and let more than 11,000 of our talented employees go _How_ does Meta have 85,000 employees? That's an _incredible_ size of an organisation.

Yeah, I was just thinking few days ago how absurdly large Twitter's workforce seemed to be.

Re: Meta lays off 11,000 people

#36
post #32

So, after Twitter and Meta layoffs there will be around 15,000 people looking for the job. In one moment. With other layoffs it can be counted over 20,000 people IMHO. Will this over flood the market and bring expectations and salaries down?

Depends on the balance of what sort of roles are laid off.

Re: Meta lays off 11,000 people

#37

Considering the greatly inflated tech wages in top companies, aren't those layoffs alone likely to impact the US economy?

Volume scale is too different. US workers might churn at .5%/month - that’s maybe 500k job losses. Even if Facebook pays 10x average, that’d be equivalent $ to ~3 days of normal churn.

Re: Meta lays off 11,000 people

#38

Severance summary: Severance. We will pay 16 weeks of base pay plus two additional weeks for every year of service, with no cap. PTO. We’ll pay for all remaining PTO time. RSU vesting. Everyone impacted will receive their November 15, 2022 vesting. Health insurance. We’ll cover the cost of healthcare for people and their families for six months. Career services. We’ll provide three months of career support with an ex…

4 month's paid holiday? This is the kind of severance that would make me wish I'd been laid off.

Or have something similar guaranteed by EU Worker Protection. I was made redundant a few years ago and was paid 4.5 month salary on my last day.

Re: Meta lays off 11,000 people

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post #27

> I’ve decided to reduce the size of our team by about 13% and let more than 11,000 of our talented employees go _How_ does Meta have 85,000 employees? That's an _incredible_ size of an organisation.

Ad sales and content moderation don’t scale as well as engineering, I suppose.
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