Does FB Ship 1500 impactful products every year?

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Jun 8, 2018 9 Comments

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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  • Dropbox
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    Hey chase. Thanks for ripping people off
    Jun 8, 2018 0
  • If you aren't building things at your company what exactly do you do all day?
    Jun 8, 2018 0
  • Why do you care
    Jun 8, 2018 0
  • Intel
    IntelAlum

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    Depends on what you define as products. Products could range from internal tools, to backend features, to a new feature on fb frontend, to a lot of other endless “projects”. If you look at it this way, im sure they ship ~1500 a year
    Jun 8, 2018 0
  • IBM
    xdij88

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    xdij88
    Lol. Their tools and infra division is one of the best . They don't "ship" anything. By your logic they ought to be fired.
    Jun 8, 2018 0