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A lot of people even at Google just do run-of-the-mill stuff. Not everyone is making deep learning artificial big table or some such. A rule of thumb is at any
by geodel 4y ago
A lot of people even at Google just do run-of-the-mill stuff. Not everyone is making deep learning artificial big table or some such.
A rule of thumb is at any organization roughly square root of employees are critical. So at Google that number would be < 500 people. So even when I consider that layoffs are totally random (unlikely), there would be 40 or so people laid off which could be considered important loss. This is bad but not going to hamper Google significantly where they are going.
- JonathanMerklin 4y agoI haven't heard the "square root of employees are critical" rule of thumb. I have previously heard of Price's Law - paraphrasing: "half of the output is created by a square root of the organization". But as I understand it, there's not a notion of criticality. What if 80% of your output is critical? What if the n-n^0.5 group is on critical output and your square root group is slinging schlock at high volume?