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A security startup that laid off 4 (of 12) employees the week before thanksgiving. This was in an effort to hire marketers for the product that was in part built by the 4 that were laid off.
They also took the Christmas bonuses and stock of those that were laid off and distributed them as incentive for the remaining employees to stay. There is a lot of political turmoil as far as I am told.
AppNexus just fired something 14% of their staff in NYC, around 150 jobs. Mostly marketing/sales but I knew a few devs who got canned. Apparently doing some housecleaning before their IPO
Related: Rubicon and AOL have done some house cleaning as well
Reposted ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854996 ) from last month's thread, as it's still relevant: The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is currently laying off over 100+ (union, management and contractor) IT folks from the Enterprise Technology Solutions (IT operations) and Testing teams. All of the affected positions are being transferred to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS -…
One interesting point is that Markham itself is a pretty popular "off-shoring" location for US businesses.
In Australia the state government of NSW is firing local IT workers, and replacing them with more subservient temporary visa holders: http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2016/12/nsw-government-repla...
>“Australia has real depth in IT skills so it is quite extraordinary for the NSW government to bring in 32 workers under 457 visas,” Mr Shoebridge said.
Anyone that has had to hire for technical roles in Australia can tell you it's really not this easy Australia definitely has depth but it doesn't have breadth and the highly skilled tech people are in such demand that they are rarely available for hiring. So unless you're hiring for a junior role you probably will have a very difficult time finding highly skilled employees. I'd still like to see more focus in getting juniors hired and trained though so that in a few years we can have more resources available at the mid to upper levels.
Side note I use to be a 457 and I never felt subservient in anyway either.
Reposted ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854996 ) from last month's thread, as it's still relevant: The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is currently laying off over 100+ (union, management and contractor) IT folks from the Enterprise Technology Solutions (IT operations) and Testing teams. All of the affected positions are being transferred to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS -…
Tata is in Markham right? I wonder what the split in on-shore/off-shore will be. One interesting point is that Markham itself is a pretty popular "off-shoring" location for US businesses.
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Tata is in Markham right? I wonder what the split in on-shore/off-shore will be. One interesting point is that Markham itself is a pretty popular "off-shoring" location for US businesses.
The only Toronto office I can see listed for TCS is downtown @ 400 University Avenue (which hilariously enough is the building I worked in previously) - I'm sure they'll gladly work anywhere in the city though! As of now, the project managers and team leads are on site, with the majority of their technical staff being back in India.
Anyhow I got a bit side tracked there, I hope you got decent notice and manage to land comfortably on your feet.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only Toronto office I can see listed for TCS is downtown @ 400 University Avenue (which hilariously enough is the building I worked in previously) - I'm sure they'll gladly work anywhere in the city though! As of now, the project managers and team leads are on site, with the majority of their technical staff being back in India.
Ah I thought I saw their logo on top of one of the few non-CGI/AMD buildings last time I was in the area. Anyhow I got a bit side tracked there, I hope you got decent notice and manage to land comfortably on your feet.