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Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by tzs »

desdiv wrote: post #14
Keverw wrote: post #5

Twitter is firing the people who worked on Vine. http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2016/10/27/twitter-strong-q3... Really love how you are doing the opposite for this thread. I guess It helps people get prospective on both sides :)

I did a double-take when I saw Twitter posting[0] in the Who's Hiring thread. What's the rationale here? Why are they firing and hiring at the same time? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12851502

According to the link given by Keverw most of the fired employees were in marketing and sales. The "Who's Hiring" post is asking for software engineers to work on server infrastructure.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by achievingApathy »

anon400232 wrote: post #27
wellworld wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! I'm really tempted to post about the suffering, near-fraud and deceit in my company, but I figure it'll be all over the news soon.

You could share thoughts on Glassdoor, right? I would like to find (or create) a service where we can talk about the real dirt at companies. Encouraging honest accounts without disparagment is a hard balance. Building an identity and reputation system where reviews are trustworthy is hard, especially if you also want anonymity. Like many people, I've worked at places with big problems. In cases where friends apply, I…

RIP FuckedCompany.com.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by monkeyshelli »

atom_enger wrote: post #19
pknerd wrote: post #11

This should be a monthly thread.

Yeah seems like something we should track along with hiring. Great thing to know about if you're on the market.

I agree. Get the other side of the coin as well if you don't have option to talk with some of the people "over beverages".

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by bbcbasic »

malbs wrote: post #91
bbcbasic wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "Oh, don't worry about that, thats just our american parent company" Translation: "don't worry about that, that's just the company you are applying for"

I was young and really wanted the job! It was easy to overlook the obvious

I'm making fun of their gall more than anything else. I'd probably have overlooked that too when I was young.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by throw1988_9121 »

hinkley wrote: post #97
throw1988_9121 wrote: post #79

The company where I work has been going through problems and for the past few months people keep being let go. After 4 months of watching an average of 2 people loose their jobs per month, I had the idea to register dayssincelastlayoff.com. My idea was to have a 'X Days Since Last Injury' kind of image on the site that would just show this stat for various companies. My thinking was that knowing how frequently a comp…

Pretty much my experience. Once one useful person gets laid off, everyone can't help but think they're the next useful person to get laid off. And in small groups it feels personal. So now you're playing CYA instead of taking the good kinds of risks with big payoffs.

In your opinion what hurts morale more? One big round of layoff, or multiple smaller rounds?

I've only seen the later happen, and personally I think I'd prefer the first one. If you know that after that large layoff round the rest of the company is safe, I'd venture that might be better for the morale of the remaining employees.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by rnugent »

prawn wrote: post #10
chrissnell wrote: post #8

Back in the first dotcom bubble, we had FuckedCompany.com. It tracked these sorts of things on a daily basis.

The creator of said site posts on HN from time to time, under pud . https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pud

Pud is Phil Kaplan. He made a few bucks on AdBright, got married and still hacks up wild ideas that mostly whiff. Plays the drums.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by theow »

anon12369 wrote: post #67

Shopstyle in SF just laid off 20 staffers between dev and product.

I heard that was directly due to development team deciding to rewrite their site in "the angular" because it was quote: "like Haskell but better"

Blew a huge hole in their search engine rankings.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by Dobbs »

kristianp wrote: post #106
frogstomp19 wrote: post #37

Not technically "firing" I suppose but all of the dev org in Atlanta and SF, including myself, were laid off at athenahealth last week. Something like 120 people. Sucks.

What's the difference between being fired and laid off?

Being fired generally means you did something wrong wrong. Laid off means the company is getting rid of people to reduce costs or due to removing the position, for example due to change of strategy.

One generally implies personal fault, the other implies side-effect of business.

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