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Meta hiring researchers en masse at $100m+ pay packages is fairly new, as of this summer. I don't know if that's indicative of the market as a whole though. Zu
by brandall10 11mo ago
Meta hiring researchers en masse at $100m+ pay packages is fairly new, as of this summer.
I don't know if that's indicative of the market as a whole though. Zuck just seems really gutted they fell behind with Llama 4.
- andsoitis 11mo ago> Meta hiring researchers en masse at $100m+ pay packages is fairly new, as of this summer. En masse? Wasn't it just a couple of outliers?
- rco8786 11mo ago"en masse" is a stretch
- renegade-otter 11mo agoA lot of them left in the first days on the job. I guess they saw what they were going to work on and peaced out. No one wants to work on AI slop and mental abuse of children on social media.
- _vqpz 11mo agoI don't understand how an intelligent person could accept a job offer from Facebook in 2025 and not understand what company they just agreed to work for.
- kjreact 11mo agoIt’s probably a VC fundraising strategy, “Meta gave me 100s of millions so you should give me more”.
- pirates 11mo agoThose people are intelligent, they’re just selfish and have no qualms over making money off the repugnant crap they’re doing.
- 998244353 11mo agoIn that case, how come they "left in the first days of the job" because "they saw what they were going to work on and peaced out"?
- CamperBob2 11mo agoThey may have found that the work they were called upon to perform was worse than what they'd been led to expect. Maybe much worse.
- IncreasePosts 11mo agoIt helps when they hand you comically large sacks with dollar signs on them
- aswanson 11mo agoI wonder if the 100 million dollar guys got a signing bonus like athletes. Just take 10 mill and chuck up deuces.
- robotnikman 11mo agoWith the amount of money Facebook was offering I could see them having a hard time refusing. If someone offered me 100 million dollars to work on AI I know I would have a hard time refusing.
- dylan604 11mo ago> No one wants to work on AI slop and mental abuse of children on social media. If this was true, we wouldn't have AI slop and mental abuse of children. Since we do, we know your comment is just flat out incorrect.
- Anon1096 11mo agoStated without a shred of evidence and getting no pushback. Classic for a nonsense claim about big tech company HN doesn't like, lol.
- renegade-otter 11mo agohttps://www.wired.com/story/researchers-leave-meta-superintelligence-labs-openai/ https://www.wired.com/story/researchers-leave-meta-superinte...
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- dolmen 11mo agohttps://archive.is/gnRqX https://archive.is/gnRqX
- iLoveOncall 11mo agoStated with no more evidence than the figure of $100M of compensation, which was started by Sam Altman on his brother's podcast. But surprisingly everyone seems to be entirely fine with this wild claim and not asking for proof.
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- DebtDeflation 11mo agoThis summer was a lifetime ago.
- alfalfasprout 11mo agoIt was a few researchers and they stopped doing that already. In a way, the AI market in H1 2025 is VERY different already than H2 2025.