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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by maltelandwehr on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @06:29AM (#33530033)
If you include Stripe, Klarna, Netflix, Uber, Robinhood, Snap, Lyft, etc. tech layoffs in recent months have topped 100,000 now.
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by onlyrealcuzzo on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @06:36AM (#33530111)
Which is about how many people Google itself hired over the course of the Pandemic, for context.

So it's not the end of the world. It really is a pretty minor set back so far.

Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by ransom1538 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @06:41AM (#33530149)
All positions are flooded with great resumes: FB,twitter,AMZN,etc. Sure there are 100k laid off (in your example), but, the more competitive people (not laid off yet) are starting to flood the market with resumes as well. This group (not laid off yet) at FAANG are starting to panic and push resumes around - they are worried about being forced into the office or being included in the next lay off round. So 500k? resumes are floating around right now. Remote positions have turned into knife fights. This will takes YEARS to get through. I plan to be unemployed for years.

I have interviewed hundreds of developers over the years. I have seen 1? facebook resumes. They are fought over usually. Now 11k of these on the market? God help us.

Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by lxrbst on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @06:43AM (#33530171)
These are mostly recruiters and biz people being laid off, from all of those companies. Maybe stop spewing panic infused ignorance.
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by ransom1538 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @06:46AM (#33530197)
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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by lxrbst on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @06:55AM (#33530274)
The submission itself is such a link. Did you even read it, or just dive straight into the comments?

> Recruiting will be disproportionately affected since we’re planning to hire fewer people next year. We’re also restructuring our business teams more substantially.

Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by j-krieger on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:45AM (#33530748)
I can't believe google hired 100k people during the pandemic. Can you source this claim?
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by pyrrhotech on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:54AM (#33530861)
Of course not, because it was pulled from his ass. Google had 120k employees in 2019, and 150k in 2021. Even with churn, the OP is way off
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by bombcar on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:58AM (#33530905)
It could still be true if Google fired 70k people. But we’d have heard of that.
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by bsimpson on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:48PM (#33535229)
Half of Googlers are temps:

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56878

so double the numbers for a sense of how many people G actually employs.

Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by three_seagrass on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:02PM (#33535442)
TVCs are temps, vendors, and contractors - they aren't typically considered hires. It's covering things like mat/pat leave backfill to kitchen staff.
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by bsimpson on Thursday November 10, 2022 @01:58PM (#33551355)
Oh you sweet summer child
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by stonewhite on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @08:43AM (#33531451)
I believe you are talking about amazon hiring 100000 warehouse workers, not google
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by flakeoil on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @08:57AM (#33531641)
Add to that thousands of smaller companies laying of 10 people here, 100 people there. We will not hear about it, but it quickly adds up.

In addition, we go from a phase where people new in the job market (students etc) were being hired quickly to no one hiring them. So there are both laid off people and new entrants added to the pool.

Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by CamelRocketFish on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @09:27AM (#33532047)
> In addition, we go from a phase where people new in the job market (students etc) were being hired quickly to no one hiring them. So there are both laid off people and new entrants added to the pool.

I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Hiring students is much cheaper so companies may still hire them whilst letting go of other expensive employees at a cost of quality.

Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by jollyllama on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @11:52AM (#33534323)