Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people
by type-r on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @11:28AM
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on the face, it should be pretty easily sustainable based on the profit per employee these companies make. i guess we just really hate anyone but shareholders actually getting a piece of the pie.
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The total revenue of some of these companies is absolutely just mindblowing, normalized by number of employees even more so.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=AAPL+GOOG+META
| Apple | Google | Meta
market cap | $2.245 trillion | $1.163 trillion | $261.8 billion
revenue | $387.5 billion | $278.1 billion | $117.9 billion
employees | 154000 | 174014 | 71970
revenue / employee | $2.517 million | $1.598 million | $1.639 million
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people
by steviesands on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @02:31PM
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I checked a few days ago and the revenue per employee at big tech is eerily similar to "Biglaw" and non retail banking (Jones day, >200k entry level, goldman is similar) at 1-2mil per employee. One could argue the market for IB/trading has been saturated by applicants for years but they pay is still well above norms ~>150k entry level. Pretty interesting.
Revenue isn't profit. Now show profit/employee.