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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 stor
by sbarre 4y 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 4y agoBeing 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.