LinkedIn to cut 960 jobs worldwide

Re:LinkedIn to cut 960 jobs worldwide by twblalock on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @03:25PM (#23910020)

FAANG companies can't move fast and break things like startups. If their services go down, it might be mentioned on the evening news, and it would certainly cost a lot of money. FAANGs have huge existing revenues to protect, large customer bases to keep happy, and laws to obey in all of the countries where they operate.

A "simple" feature change is not so simple for companies with those concerns.

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Re:LinkedIn to cut 960 jobs worldwide by decafninja on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @09:02AM (#23916446)

Can't you say the same about banks and finance? Hospitals and medical tech? Software in say, cars, aircraft, ships? If anything, even more so?

I could be naive, but what is the most societal impact that could happen if say, Instagram goes down or gets a major bug? Or if something went wrong at Netflix?

Vs. software going wrong at a major bank or on an airliner?

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Re:LinkedIn to cut 960 jobs worldwide by gowld on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @04:39PM (#23910737)

"move fast and break things" is literally Facebook's motto, the F in FAANG. It's why you know the motto.

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Re:LinkedIn to cut 960 jobs worldwide by twblalock on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @04:56PM (#23910913)

They used that motto when they were a startup and changed it a while ago.

> On May 2, 2014, Zuckerberg announced that the company would be changing its internal motto from "Move fast and break things" to "Move fast with stable infrastructure"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Inc.#History

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