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What the heck do close to 10k people do at LinkedIn? Serious question. Why does this site/company require 10k people?
Once you have that answer, you’ll know why there are so many employees.
Companies commonly use layoffs as an easy way to get rid of under-performing staff, realize cost savings from previous investments (e.g., automation) ahead of schedule, or efficiently reorganize divisions whose execs fall out of favor. Not going to say this is good, but a However callous it is, roles on the margin get cut when prospects for growth dim.
> a So, almost literally decimate in the classical sense? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)
What the heck do close to 10k people do at LinkedIn? Serious question. Why does this site/company require 10k people?
960 is 6% of the global LinkedIn workforce. I am baffled by how many people work for LinkedIn.
I'm baffled by that number given how bad the product is. It has a lot of potential, but is completely ruined by the social media aspect and their attempt at making it yet another cesspool like Twitter or Instagram, all the way down to the algorithmic feed, likes and reactions. They should step away from the nonsense and make the tool (because yes it should be seen as a tool and not a lifestyle) easier to use, not har…
That's because the "product" isn't the social network. The "product" is insight and access to much of the professional workforce. Sales and HR use it extensively.
The social network aspect is likely to keep people semi-engaged with the platform and voluntarily disclosing things that Sales and HR can use as signals.
What the heck do close to 10k people do at LinkedIn? Serious question. Why does this site/company require 10k people?
This article is so damn useful: https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/ > I can't think of a single large software company that doesn't regularly draw internet comments of the form “What do all the employees do? I could build their product myself.” Benjamin Pollack and Jeff Atwood called out people who do that with Stack Overflow. But Stack Overflow is relatively obviously lean, so the general response is something like “oh,…
What the heck do close to 10k people do at LinkedIn? Serious question. Why does this site/company require 10k people?
This article is so damn useful: https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/ > I can't think of a single large software company that doesn't regularly draw internet comments of the form “What do all the employees do? I could build their product myself.” Benjamin Pollack and Jeff Atwood called out people who do that with Stack Overflow. But Stack Overflow is relatively obviously lean, so the general response is something like “oh,…
On every damn layoff thread.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes you can. Look at Craigslist or POF.com for examples. But I also forgot that LI owns Lynda.com, so there are a lot of redundancies over there.
Neither craigslist nor POF generates 7 billion in revenue. Latest number I can find for craigslist is around 700m in 2016, let’s assume it’s 1b now. And let’s assume they have 1 employee. You don’t think hiring an additional 10k employees to get an extra 6b in revenue is worth it?
There are many businesses that operate in the 10figure range that dont require 10's of thousands of employees.
To me LI is more indicative of bloat. Especially since they are owned by MSFT.
Companies commonly use layoffs as an easy way to get rid of under-performing staff, realize cost savings from previous investments (e.g., automation) ahead of schedule, or efficiently reorganize divisions whose execs fall out of favor. Not going to say this is good, but a However callous it is, roles on the margin get cut when prospects for growth dim.
> a So, almost literally decimate in the classical sense? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)
What the heck do close to 10k people do at LinkedIn? Serious question. Why does this site/company require 10k people?
This article is so damn useful: https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/ > I can't think of a single large software company that doesn't regularly draw internet comments of the form “What do all the employees do? I could build their product myself.” Benjamin Pollack and Jeff Atwood called out people who do that with Stack Overflow. But Stack Overflow is relatively obviously lean, so the general response is something like “oh,…