{"id":999881786,"date":"2019-03-19T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dice.npgdev.com\/?p=718296378"},"modified":"2019-03-19T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T12:37:00","slug":"tech-pros-want-big-tech-companies-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dice.npgdev.com\/hiring\/recruitment\/tech-pros-want-big-tech-companies-broken","title":{"rendered":"Tech Pros Want Big Tech Companies Broken Up: Survey Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year, we asked tech pros<\/a> which major tech companies should be broken up. As Facebook, Amazon, and Google face increased government scrutiny and the specter of being split up, it seems tech pros are all for it. In response to our survey, 44.2 percent of tech pros think Facebook, Google, and Amazon should all be split up into smaller entities, respective of their unique markets. A blueprint for this was laid out by Alphabet, the parent company Google spawned for itself as a means to allow loss-leaders to lose on their own merit during earnings calls (so entities like Waymo didn\u2019t bring the whole of Google down). In theory, companies like Facebook could be split up into component companies in a similar way, although those sub-entities would be financially independent in order to avoid anti-trust legislation. For example, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Oculus would split off from Facebook. Or AWS, Twitch, and Whole Foods (all Amazon-owned companies) would have to stand on their own merit. Nearly half as many tech pros (24.2 percent) think these companies should be left alone. We also asked tech pros if they had one unique company they felt was a bad actor; some 13.3 percent say only<\/em> Facebook should be dismantled, while 12.5 percent say Amazon should be on the chopping block. Far less (5.8 percent) say Google is the main offender and should be made an example of.