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by wgyn 2264 days ago
Is the narrative that big companies are safe havens for job seekers actually true? Isn't Airbnb a "big" company?
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Airbnb is working on pulling out all the stops to try and prevent layoffs. They might not succeed, but if they were a smaller company they wouldn't even have anything to try.
Is there anything inherent in their size which means they can weather the storm?
I think big isn't just pure size. Groupon was a 'big' company in chicago with ~10k employees here.
Company size is positively but not perfectly correlated with stability.