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Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues (futurism.com)
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[–] 14 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Many employees at Meta have been working from “hot desks,” a controversial scheme involving multiple workers sharing the same desks.

They were doing this as far back as 2020, as I recall. It was my least favorite part of going into the office because you had to reserve a desk, and you were never guaranteed the same desk on any given day.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    pretty hardcore! desk = money! Got any more stories to tell? Would love to have them at !DeMeta@lemmy.world

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I do, but a lot of them are actually pretty fond memories. I hate to say it, but it was a really good job. I was also on the AR/VR team, so my experience was a bit different from that of the rest of the company.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Was it like a startup in the the mega corp kinda vibe? Also I wonder if you have a guess as to where all that money ($80B+?) went Meta lost there ;)

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    It was, yeah. A lot of the infrastructure was still standing from when it was Oculus so it felt super detached from everything else.

    As for the 80B, I can confidently say that a solid chunk of that went to software licenses, believe it or not. They were spending millions a year on their on-prem GitHub Enterprise server alone, which was technically redundant because the rest of Meta had an in-house Mercurial megarepo that, surprisingly, worked really well. They may have moved off of that by now, though, since I was last employed there in 2024.

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