Facebook owner Meta expected to announce major job losses (opens in new tab)

(bbc.com)

11 pointsbroahmed3y ago11 comments

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I feel like we've all become so normalized to this constant boom/bust cycle in the tech economy. Does anyone have advice for people who are looking for real jobs, where you serve an essential function to an organization and aren't just padding some managers portfolio.....

anonymouswacker3y ago

These are the constraints in employment: high compensation, fulfillment, or stability. You can pick one, maybe two. If you want a meaningful and stable job, choose to work in a stable industry (such as Federal Government), and forego the high compensation.

Follow your passion and discover your personal Ikigai. Save money for the rainy days and times of uncertainty.

valleyjo3y ago

I’ve worked on some of the most fundamental systems behind the public cloud at two of the largest three clouds. I’ve always felt like I had all three. How stable it ends up being I guess is tbd :|

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floor23y ago

Bit of an aside, but how long are we going to keep doing this calling out the parent-child company dynamic in every single headline for Alphabet and Meta?

It makes sense for the first few weeks or months after a rebrand, merger or acquisition to remind readers that X owns Y now or A used to be called B. But at some point surely we just start calling corporations by their name, right? Does anyone reading tech or financial news not know who Meta or Alphabet is at this point?

tspike3y ago

Or we could go the other way and ignore the largely irrelevant parent company naming and just keep calling them Google and Facebook.

metadat3y ago

Discussed yesterday:

Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33497012

(377 points, 388 comments)

unstatusthequo3y ago

Is it losses, or is it cuts? Losses make it seem like they were the victim.

sedan_baklazhan3y ago

Hm. This isn't Twitter so nobody cares, as it seems.

Simon_O_Rourke3y ago

Not quite, I've got a good few close friends working with them in Menlo Park, and they're all terribly worried about what's coming down the line. The climate and general vibe has been getting steadily worse, Zuck has been getting combative and people are leaving where they can.

_djo_3y ago

This is a front page submission on HN, quoting a story from a major news outlet, and the layoffs haven’t even been announced yet.

I don’t see any evidence that ‘nobody cares’.

Nor is there indication this would be anywhere close to the same thing as Twitter laying off half of the company in one hurried and chaotic week.

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