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> Another Meta employee, also on TikTok, posted that “Meta was hiring people so that other companies couldn’t have us, and then they were just kind of like hoar
by mo_42 3y ago
> Another Meta employee, also on TikTok, posted that “Meta was hiring people so that other companies couldn’t have us, and then they were just kind of like hoarding us like Pokémon cards.”
This might be true. An alternative explanation might be that such an employee changing the color of a button has probably millions of times more impact than an engineer working at a B2B start-up with three clients.
If I would be executive at such companies and I would have the evil intent of hoarding talented people, I'd, at least, give them a playground for experimentation. Maybe a new innovative product comes out of this. This hoarding has become a popular belief in the tech industry but I don't quite buy it.
- vasco 3y ago> An alternative explanation might be that such an employee changing the color of a button has probably millions of times more impact than an engineer working at a B2B start-up with three clients. There's people who certainly tell themselves that, but I've started work in a 12 person company which grew to 300, got acquired into a 1.8k behemot and I have to say the impact is a linear decrease. But people at the 1.8k people company think they are "more professional" while in one week the 12 people did more than 800 of them do in 6 months.