Some of the employees laid off in the last round were the ones everyone turned to when things needed to get done. How does a team lose its strongest contributors and call that a sensible decision?
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Theres so much inefficiency across the company. look at all the RPDs that get pingponged from one team to another to another back to the 1st and then to another team. sheer waste of weeks or months to get a simple answer.
Its money. They reduced 10% of the engineering staff, but certainly more than 10% of the total engineering salary by %. I’d guess at least double and that was the intention.
They simply aren’t thinking about the logistics. By the time it becomes a real problem, the ELT will be long gone sipping margaritas on a beach.
We are all line items. high performers, low performers, it doesn’t matter. All of our times will come, some sooner, some later. Unless you’re rubbing elbows with SV in the c suite…
If you’ve been here more than 5-10 years, they are probably going to target you. You represent the old, genuine culture that they want to squash.
Prepare your resume, start applying, it’s not like it used to be years ago. Finding jobs is brutal now with so many people laid off across industries.
Doubt that there is anyone in simultaneous possession of real insights and a strong ethic, to share such info.
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