Does FB Ship 1500 impactful products every year?
Jun 8, 2018
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It's been said that to survive at Facebook, you (or your team) have to ship an 'impactful' product every year, otherwise, you get fired. And it fires 5% of bottom performing employees every year (hires roughly the same amount as new blood).
Facebook has 25000 employees. Assuming 65% of them are developers, and assuming 95% of them survive every year, and assuming that an average team is 10 developers. That means it's shipping 25000 * 65% * 95% / 10 'impactful' products every year, which translates to ~1500 a year.
Is it really shipping that many new products every year? Where are these products? How come I've never heard of them? Are they mostly internal?
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