Meta layoffs coming?
Reuters.com: EXCLUSIVE Facebook-owner Meta tells hardware staffers to prepare for cutbacks. https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-facebook-owner-meta-tells-hardware-staffers-prepare-cutbacks-2022-05-11/ #meta
The article literally says no layoffs
And the dance and song begins
If they could get people to use the Quest 2 for more than a month this could have been avoided
Tbh the quest 2 is a great concept with bad timing/execution. I wish more of my friends had it so we could play online. Not in the metaverse way but like how we used to play GTA/CoD
big if true on the more than a month. I get free games/apps on the Quest and still only used it for a month before the novelty ran out.
Wait… How can metaverse be a reality if they cut hardware people?
“It’s a long term vision bro chill out” -Meta bros
Absolute trash grade "reporting"
Cutback on projects makes sense. I have friends working on metaverse projects who tell me they deploy nothing to prod. They just build prototypes. I can’t believe that teams of engineers are just working on prototypes with no business outcome.
Reality "LABS". They aren't code monkeys to churn out indentation updates every week
Yeah, labs or not, you need to showcase value. Working on a new prototype every 2 weeks seems insane to me. I’ve worked on teams at Amazon where we’ve done experiments, but those experiments are brought to a small percentage of users, we document the behaviors, use that data to fuel the next experiment. Each experiment makes it infront of some customers and we wrote our hypothesis and then validated those with the results.
“Bosworth told staffers the division could not afford to do some projects anymore and would have to postpone others, without specifying which projects would be affected.” ⬇️ “cutbacks” ⬇️ “layoffs” 🤦♂️
And this line specifically "She said Meta was not planning layoffs as part of the changes."
Every time I have heard that from an executive it means layoffs. I don’t know why they deny it. If no layoffs were being considered then no denial would be mentioned like usual. The best example was corporate flying in to a studio to tell us in person no layoffs planned. 2 weeks later, the studio not only did a layoff but was given a 6 month shut down schedule lol
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Gradjunk was taken
yeah, the layoffs are coming. metas is $h1t
Brave words from amex
Rip people who graduated in 2020 like me, life is being so hard 😭
Wasn't it so sweet until 5 months ago?