Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people
by paulgb on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @06:48AM
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It says those will be “disproportionately affected”, but that could just mean that they represent (say) 10% of the layoffs even though they make up 5% of the team. It doesn't mean that the layoffs are mostly those folks.
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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people
by amusedcyclist on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @08:58AM
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Programmers don't make up more 10% of fb's employee base anyway (a guess) so if you assume that fraction at both fb and twitter you're looking at about 1500 additional people looking for jobs not 15000. Suspect this has little to no impact
No, standard is about half of full time employees are programmers. This website has them at about 42%: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/facebook
If that’s the company-wide number, I imagine it’s even higher in the Family of Apps and Reality Labs groups (the ones affected by layoffs), because it doesn’t include cross-org functions like facilities or accounting.
>Programmers don't make up more 10% of fb's employee base anyway (a guess)
if you check LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/facebook/people/), about 33% are engineers.
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people
by amusedcyclist on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @03:23PM
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It says about 12k are software engineers. Now it does say 40k total employees instead of the real number but I suspect software engineers are much more likely to be on linkedin. Still fairly confident that its closer to 10% than 33%.