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They had 45k employees three years ago. Maybe they were really hiring too much?

• SoftTalker 3y ago
  I really have a problem imagining what 86,000 employees do, even at a company like Meta
  • sbarre 3y ago
    Yep same. I work for a telco that runs a national physical phone network, a high-speed home Internet fibre network in about a third of the country, retail stores across the country, call centers, a full sales & marketing team, plus a huge IT operation, and we are less than a third of that headcount. To be fair, Meta is a global business with billions of users, so I'm sure it takes people to run all that, but it's still hard to rationalize.
    • edmundsauto 3y ago
      Being global is a big part of it. Imagine trying to follow regulations for thousands of products that reside within the apps in every country in the world. You need to have engineers who can localize, work with legal teams who understand global and regional requirements. You need folks to work with the local version of the FTC if you are under consent agreements. Your HR team has to be experts in local employment law in every jurisdiction, especially during layoffs. Folks who haven't worked on products that cross jurisdiction (and for a company that has a LOT of attention on it, due to being so much in the press) - it's just a completely different scale. Heuristics for headcount in a single country just don't really work.
  • Moldoteck 3y ago
    Ads, other apps like insta, Whatsapp, reliability, database management, I'm not sure, du they have own servers? Vr recently, AI, office clerks, r&d, moderation, other experimental apps that don't make it to production, managers, I guess they can have lower HC, but it's a multiapp global business with billions of users, I totally expect the number to be huge, especially to be competitive with other social apps like tiktok, twitter, telegram and others