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Re:Mark Zuckerberg confirms broad layoffs to begin at Meta by dom96 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @04:55AM (#33529340)
> slightly smaller organization than we are today

"slightly" doing a lot of work there

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg confirms broad layoffs to begin at Meta by iso1631 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:00AM (#33530315)
Firing 10k today, and hiring 8k over the next 14 months, would be 2k down, or well under 5%, certainly fits "slightly" to me
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg confirms broad layoffs to begin at Meta by phyrex on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @08:10AM (#33531052)
Doubtful, what with most of the recruiters gone
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg confirms broad layoffs to begin at Meta by colinmhayes on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @10:55AM (#33533401)
They hired way more than 8k over the pandemic. Doesn't seem unreasonable to hire 8k over the next year even with half as many recruiters.
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