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LinkedIn lays off 281 workers in California, including many Bay Area engineers (www.sfgate.com)
submitted 4 months ago by chobeat@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm always surprised how many employees these companies have. 18.400?

Working in a large software company myself I shouldn't be surprised, the level of inefficiency is amazing. I've seen less inertia in government agencies. Dilbert comics were supposed to be an exaggeration, they're not.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 18 points 4 months ago

This is particularly painful for all these middle-men companies like booking.com, eBay/equivalents, Uber, etc etc. So much wasted resources that is literally only there to extract as much as they can from transactions between two other parties, really all that's needed from these services is a functioning platform, something 3 motivated engineers could probably maintain (exaggerating for effect).

All this stuff should be either open source or nationalised.

[–] maki@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’m sure they won’t be searching job through LinkedIn

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Oof… #Open to work 🤣

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Moore's Law is dead. Peak employment in tech has been reached. God help the kids in computer science.

[–] sykaster@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

ASML is still following Moore's Law, and with them the whole world.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 4 months ago

I'm surprised they even have that many workers. What do they do all day?