Facebook reportedly laying off thousands of employees

Post by dnissley » Thu, Oct 06, 2022, 10:29 PM UTC

robertlagrant wrote: post #209

pembrook wrote: post #172

It’s crazy to me how Facebook has so many employees when their entire business is basically managing 3 software products (Facebook, instagram and the advertising platform). Meanwhile I think Apple has about the same number of employees if you subtract the retail Apple store workers. Yet, Apple’s business is comprised of managing, and this is only a rough guess: - 30+ hardware products and their supply chain, marketin…

Facebook, Instagram, Meta (which is Oculus hardware and all the metaverse...stuff), Whatsapp, ads, Portal (which includes hardware). It still seems bloated, but they do a wide variety of things, including running their own enormo-scale platform, in addition to doing things on AWS.

Post by jerojero » Thu, Oct 06, 2022, 10:53 PM UTC

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happymellon wrote: post #279

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Which is surprising considering how bad it is.

In what way is iMessage bad? It works amazingly well from my perspective.

Post by epicureanideal » Thu, Oct 06, 2022, 11:50 PM UTC

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The projects you cite don't require 100s of FTE engineers. Due to the absurd amount of SWEs on Facebook, surely someone or a team happen to working there will score a huge FOSS hit sooner or later just due to the numbers.

Like I said, the open source stuff is a nice bonus. The main testament to Facebook's engineering level is that they're successfully shipping several of the largest scale software products ever to billions of people. And you certainly need a large engineering headcount for that.

Post by givemeethekeys » Fri, Oct 07, 2022, 12:49 AM UTC

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I get contacted by Amazon recruiters very often. I either ignore them or say it's not the right time for me.

Two of these bozos contacted me on a personal address that I have never used for anything work-related, but does happen to be the email I have registered as my Amazon shopping account. When I wrote back and told them to stop spamming my personal address that had nothing to do with tech work, they said it wasn't their fault, because they had just bought the email list from someone else who had done the work to cross-r…

Post by krisboyz781 » Fri, Oct 07, 2022, 1:51 AM UTC

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> And the app doesn't look like it changed that much... You didn't intend it, but that is a complement of the highest order. Thanks! Those who've worked on large systems over many years will understand what I mean.

I can see what you're getting at here but in this case, a lack of changes is NOT desired or virtuous. WA is being left in the dust by messaging platforms that actually care about shipping a quality product.