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Re:Facebook reportedly laying off thousands of employees by rightbyte on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:17AM (#33106845)
The projects you cite don't require 100s of FTE engineers.

Due to the absurd amount of SWEs on Facebook, surely someone or a team happen to working there will score a huge FOSS hit sooner or later just due to the numbers.

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Re:Facebook reportedly laying off thousands of employees by jstx1 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:33AM (#33106934)
Like I said, the open source stuff is a nice bonus. The main testament to Facebook's engineering level is that they're successfully shipping several of the largest scale software products ever to billions of people. And you certainly need a large engineering headcount for that.
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Re:Facebook reportedly laying off thousands of employees by epicureanideal on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:50PM (#33115693)
WhatsApp didn’t need a big team. Just one counter example.
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