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Re:Justice Dept files suit against Facebook for discriminati... by sjg007 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:35PM (#25296223)
Except that they really don't. That may change post pandemic and would change in the long term due to policy decisions. But global offices tend to organize around specific functions and/or products. A lot happen by acquisition. You need, not just the talented employee but all of the support systems in place around them to operate in that country. That cost is a lot higher than bringing them over. Then you have the risk of them leaving too. Way more expensive than employing 4k H1Bs.

Then once you get that office established you can bring people over on L1 visas I believe.

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Re:Justice Dept files suit against Facebook for discriminati... by umanwizard on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:37PM (#25297535)
> global offices tend to organize around specific functions and/or products

Simply not true for Facebook. The London office has a wide variety of different teams working on different projects, often directly on the same projects as teams in the US offices.

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Re:Justice Dept files suit against Facebook for discriminati... by sjg007 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:56PM (#25298390)
I am pretty sure the London office is focused on UK and European issues, GDPR and the like as well as the local ad market.. Well FB has an office in Ireland so they are probably focused on the EU issues more so. But yes there is cross pollination but that is the exception rather than the norm. FB is not the first to venture down this road.
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Re:Justice Dept files suit against Facebook for discriminati... by umanwizard on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:01PM (#25298418)
> I am pretty sure the London office is focused on UK and European issues, GDPR and the like as well as the local ad market.

You may be “pretty sure”, but you are wrong. I worked at Facebook for four years including with many people from the London office. I don’t know how else I can convince you.

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