Comment by Hjack
12 days ago
Ads are still bread and butter for Meta. The first to go will be the folks who are in vogue bcoz of cultural reasons, eg. diversity, green, etc. I would even go the extent of saying that a lot of open source maintainers will also be axed, the day Meta stops making ad money and fights for survival. The issue of `attribution` is to be decided at last, when anyway the house is partially burned and the company is fighting for survival. I am talking about the initial phase, where a lot of engineers work on teams that make no monetary/value sense for company and are there, bcoz manager/CEO don't care or are kind(mostly former).
Sure, but things like DEI, OSS, are tiny minority in most companies. At least they were in the companies I've worked at.
You mentioned that attribution is to be decided when house is burnt, but that certainly not my observation. Which department is responsible for what revenue is what senior leadership fights over all the time, whether times are good or not.