Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
by asadotzler on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:34PM
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Maybe they shouldn't have hired and put so many cooks in the kitchen. Treating workers like pawns is wild and you should not be normalizing the idea that it's OK for Big Tech to hire up thousands, find out they don't need them, and lay them off to be replaced by the next batch of thousands by the next leader trying to build an empire within the company. Treating this as SOP is a disservice to your industry and everyone working in it who isn't a fat cat.
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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
by renewiltord on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @03:21PM
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No, I'm totally fine with it. No one can guess precisely how many people need to be hired and I'd rather they overshoot than undershoot because some law stops it. This means that now some people were employed who would not otherwise be employed. That's spending by Meta that goes to people.
Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
by LunaSea on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:23PM
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> No one can guess precisely how many people need to be hired
Overshooting by 600 people sounds a lot like gross failure. Is someone going to take responsibilities for it? Probably not. That person's job is safe.
Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
by renewiltord on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @08:07PM
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I suspect Mark Zuckerberg isn't going to fire himself for getting headcount wrong by 1%.