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Amanda Watson, the engineer who pioneered the AirLink and several other technologies for Oculus, was hired at Valve. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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An article about her work at Oculus and Meta: XR Update

No Frame today, it looks like.

Tweet from Amanda Watson: "I'm pleased to announce I recently started a full-time engineering position at Valve! I'll be working on various things, including VR (and Steam Frame)"

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Neither Jolla nor Valve are small companies, 200 and 350 (ish) employees respectively. But company size has nothing to do with revenue or profit, it's literally just people on the payroll and a cutoff of your choosing.

I don't think it's really fare to compare the distribution capabilities of a hardware company vs a software/service company, though. And doesn't this hiring kind of imply they're expanding their hardware side?

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[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

From employee count they both would easily fit the legal US definition of a small business, as that's usually 500 or fewer, but can be as high as 1500 in some industries, depends what they'd be classified as.
Some are just directly about revenue too, so you could in theory be too big to be a small business even if it's just a single person - and by that standard, Valve is obviously not fit to be a small business.

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[–] VAK@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Whoa, I think in many other countries it's small upto 50. 500 feels so high - the ceo wouldn't even know everyone.

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago

I was being vague about the cutoff because Jolla isn't in the US and I didn't want to look up every country's definition lol

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