Former Meta staffer reveals she had to ‘fight for work’
I have been in what feels like a ridiculous number of arguments over the years with people who will defend to the hilt the idea that these companies all need as many workers as they do, insisting that the very idea that they might have a ton of people hired doing effectively nothing is some combination of insulating and naive. Of course, the fact that some of us actually know such people--my favorite example: I had an indirect friend who loved to tell the story of how, after his third project at Google got killed before launch, he just stopped working and realized there were little, if any, actual consequences for doing nothing ;P--never seemed to hold any weight.<p>I&#x27;m really hoping that, if nothing else comes out of 202[23], it is a realization that the size and scope of these teams was, in fact, <i>madness</i>, and no one will ever be able to credibly claim that they need thousands and thousands of people to maintain a single app <i>ever again</i> (but, sadly, I know that this isn&#x27;t the case, as about three months from now no one will remember any of this happened and none of this has ever come to light and if you try to casually mention it as if it were common knowledge you&#x27;ll get flooded with &quot;citation needed&quot; as we live in the land of Eternal September where somehow no one ever thinks it is useful to study even recent history).