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Meta Prepares for Layoffs on Monday

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How will these people mentally cope with the coming realities of having to trade their $300k comp (some of which didn't require a lot of work during their tenure) for making $80k writing CRUD apps and line of business software at some local shop 40hrs a week. The job market isn't great right now, not to mention oversaturated with programmers, it's not like they will all move over to Google tomorrow. Even if they have plenty of money, it's an ego hit to slash your comp by 2/3 just to stay employed. Not to mention they have the stink of layoff on them, even if you were a top performer it's the very first question recruiters ask incredulously. These people had a golden ticket but fell into the vat of chocolate.

Let your ego die and realize your golden ticket can run out at any time. You are not a software engineer; you are a person who, for some amount of time, pays the bills performing software engineering work. What you do and who you are after the golden ticket runs out is up to you.

The job market may not be great, but I'm pretty sure most former Meta engineers are going to do much better than landing an $80k job.

And they'll probably be happier, working for someone less evil than Zuck.

it is ASTOUNDING how many people think you have to slave at FAANG to make a great living as SWE

If they cared about Zuck’s moral compass, they wouldn’t have worked on giving teen girls depression and making the world shittier in the first place.

There are zero good people working at Meta.

lol dude if it weren't Instagram, it would be some other site - the problem is teen girls using social media, not IG specifically.

>some of which didn't require a lot of work during their tenure

>These people had a golden ticket but fell into the vat of chocolate.

What makes you think so?

Maybe the layoff is not the biggest stink, but the fact they used to work for Facebook? Or post-truth is also the era of post-ethics?

I really worry for the ones who bought inflated real estate and are looking at a 50-pct salary reduction. That will hurt hard. Not to mention the work from home people with long commutes being asked to RTO at a lower pay. In managing contractors, I've seen the ones what were able to jump on a well paying <12-month contract and think that is their next level of compensation and it will never be below that level. It always seemed to reset to a mean salary.

> Meta Prepares for Layoffs on Monday

Is surveillance capitalism not profitable anymore? Or are data brokers no more interested how one sleeps or what he eats ?

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