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Some data from the inside: Reality Labs (AR/VR) hit less hard than the rest of the company. No one on my team or adjacent teams let go. Most bootcampers (unal
by nicolashahn 4y ago
Some data from the inside:
Reality Labs (AR/VR) hit less hard than the rest of the company. No one on my team or adjacent teams let go.
Most bootcampers (unallocated new hires) are gone, even ones that were performing well.
Low performer from my past team outside RL was let go, so it appears performance was a factor for a lot of roles, rather than just axing entire teams based on business need.
edit: updated to clear up some confusion about the meaning of RL and bootcampers
- blamazon 4y ago(RL == Reinforcement Learning) Edit: I was wrong but this is why acronyms without explanation are annoying.
- rwiggum 4y agoincorrect. RL = reality labs. the VR and metaverse stuff.
- magicseth 4y agoReality Labs?
- nicolashahn 4y agoNope, other comments are correct, Reality Labs, aka AR/VR and other hardware
- rcdexta 4y agoI think he is talking about Reality Labs division
- ml_basics 4y ago> Most bootcampers are gone, even ones that were performing well. What are bootcampers, does this just mean recent hires? Or people who came in with no specialist skills who rotate until they find a team?
- nicolashahn 4y agoRecent hires who haven't yet been allocated to a team, though they do work with teams on real tasks and produce code. Usually non-specialists, though some like ML engineers do go through bootcamp.
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- jonasdegendt 4y agoPeople without any formal higher education, but only coding bootcamp experience.
- brundolf 4y agoThat was my assumption too before seeing the clarification
- loeg 4y agoNot in this context.
- xdavidliu 4y agoto be fair, the non-facebook definition is way more commonly used in tech.
- ShinTakuya 4y agoI wouldn't say that. At least, I haven't talked to many FB employees and yet bootcamp was used for onboarding at two largish tech companies I worked at.
- brundolf 4y agoI've never really heard of it being used that way before now
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- blsapologist42 4y agoNot true that "most" bootcampers are gone. Please don't spread misinformation.
- nicolashahn 4y agoI don't have hard data (do you?) but all bootcampers we were working with were laid off and threads on Blind seem to indicate bootcamper layoffs were heavy