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Re:Four Years in Startups by undefined3840 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @08:38PM (#21066378)
A Facebook engineer just committed suicide last week due (allegedly) to workplace bullying made possible in part by his immigration status. Something like 45 women from Google just came forward claiming they were retaliated against for bringing up sexual harassment claims to HR this week.

You can’t generalize the claim that things are different at FAANGs either.

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Re:Four Years in Startups by barry-cotter on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @09:07PM (#21066554)
Don’t Facebook and Google each have over 100K employees just in their Bay Area offices? This is like FoxConn[1]. You can be doing substantially better than average and still have constant bad news by virtue of your size alone.

[1] The suicide rate among their employees was below the general population’s.

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Re:Four Years in Startups by hobofan on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @05:06AM (#21069035)
> The suicide rate among their employees was below the general population’s.

Was their suicide rate lower or higher then that of employees with a similar socioeconomic status?

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Re:Four Years in Startups by undefined3840 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @09:21PM (#21066626)
No...Google has 100k employees worldwide. Facebook is something like 30k worldwide.
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Re:Four Years in Startups by shuckles on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @03:20AM (#21068532)
I'm not sure how your logic works: "most meritocratic, efficient, and transparent" does not mean flawless.
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