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People may be more willing to hop, but they'll be able find new hires. Check out the number of applicants to any "Meta" job opening on LinkedIn.

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Everybody compensating like FAANG does will find new hires. The question is: are they the best?

Competing question: Do you need the best?

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are built. They have their management systems and structures in place. It would be wrong to think that everyone at Facebook needs to be a genius for the company to succeed, and putting a genius into many of the roles that are needed to keep the company operating won't work out well for either the genius or the company.

Once you switch to maintenance mode, you have already lost. You will always need to innovate and for this you need smart people with good ideas and talent to make it work.

Not really. You can also just buy contenders.

Facebook is going to struggle to get the FTC to clear any acquisition in this political climate

Any automatic apply feature is going to get flooded with job applications. Those LinkedIn job posts all have an “Easy Apply” button.

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