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That’s pretty funny. I have an amazing home office setup, and even all that high-end kit cost a very small fraction of an FB engineer yearly salary. Are they planning on burning the delta by throwing in high-end telepresence hardware, or something?



I don't know if it's high end, but every FTE I know got a Portal.


The top end afaik is the Cisco telepresence gear used in eg the White House. There’s a spectrum in between, but $280 is definitely near the lower end. Maybe portal is really good, though?

But honestly, it could be the best teleconferencing gear, I’d never put a camera from FB in my home.


Pardon my ignorance, but what is a Portal?


A video-call device they make: https://portal.facebook.com/


I was about to ask the same question. I didn't even know this product existed!


a whitelabled version of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen


The average dev at Facebook is paid like $150k. If they implement this then some engineers will lose $50k per year.

$179. Lol

If Facebook gave each dev a $15,000 computer setup then most will still be royally fucked by this policy.


At $179 that's a cheap product.




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