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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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