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Facebook owner Meta expected to announce major job losses

bbc.com

11 pointsbroAhmed11 comments

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.....

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.

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 :|

Lucky. I am the same way, stable job, high pay, and very rewarding, although I think if I were to be honest, and know my own worth, I'd know I was being short-changed both in my pay and fulfillment, versus working for myself. But to each their own...

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?

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

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)

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

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

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.

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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