Facebook Faces High-Level Staff Exodus 346
angry tapir writes "It has been troubled times for Facebook since the social network's IPO in May. There has been speculation that Facebook could suffer a talent drain in the wake of the IPO, and now the organization has lost four of its high-level managers the space of a week: Ethan Beard, director of platform partnerships; Kate Mitic, platform marketing director; Jonathan Matus, mobile platform marketing manager; and Ben Blumenfeld, design manager, have all resigned from the company."
Do we really care? (Score:2, Funny)
Do we really care?
What's this FaceBook thing anyway?
Does it compile into native code or P-code?
we all tried to do it (Score:5, Funny)
Wha? (Score:5, Funny)
If you put facebook through a compiler ... (Score:2, Funny)
... the outcome is a bunch of soiled butt-papers
Surprise! (Score:5, Funny)
Who's Zuckerberg's alter ego? (Score:5, Funny)
Facebook's biggest problem as a young company is Zuckerberg has never had a corporate alter ego. The most prominent of the newer information companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Google were started by partners such as Steve Jobs/Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates/Paul Allen, and Larry Page/Sergey Brin. Like a vanishing twin, one of the partners might eventually leave the company, but in their early histories, none of these companies was dominated by a single alpha-geek but by a Batman and Robin or Laurel and Hardy dynamic duo.
Re:Who's Zuckerberg's alter ego? (Score:5, Funny)
Unfortunately for Microsoft, they lost both Professor X and Cyclops and have had to make due with Matter Eater Lad for the past decade.
Re:And this is surprising? (Score:5, Funny)
In fact, it's a derailed ship which has been driven into a ditch, is now stuck in a nosedive, and is about to go over a cliff.
Re:Besides... (Score:5, Funny)
So does being a "C/C#/C++ Programmer" make you some kind of big shot?
By virtue of having three consecutive alphanumeric Cs in your job title, you would outrank everyone else in the company. Unless of course they hired a CCCCEO.
Re:It won't kill FB (Score:5, Funny)
Diaspora is the Linux desktop of social networking, except not actually useful or secure.
Re:It won't kill FB (Score:5, Funny)
True - fb will see a big drop in their income if all their users stop showing up
But that will almost never happen - due to the fact of the sheer number of users fb has gathered
Once you achieved a critical mass, like what fb has gotten itself, it'll not be that easy to topple it --- Ask yourself if Microsoft going to close its door tomorrow, that Bill Gates is no longer on the helm, and Steve Ballmer still throwing chairs around
This is true - all of my vague acquaintances and high school classmates who I didn't like then will always need a place to tell me what they're making for supper tonight and ... later ... tell me how it tasted and how much they love their spouse / kids / pet.
Re:It won't kill FB (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It won't kill FB (Score:4, Funny)
Perhaps people will go out and make real friends.
Re:It won't kill FB (Score:5, Funny)
Raising capitol, lovely spelling mistake that is very revealing of the way things work in big business :}
I suppose the only solution to such intractable corruption is razing capitol.