Ask HN: Who is firing? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by boulos » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 5:59 AM UTC

jacalata wrote: post #74

stephengillie wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about the number of throwaway accounts that might necessitate? It would be better to have a more anonymous means to announce that your employer is firing.

Well, hopefully the site is written well enough to scale the users database if necessary.

Besides, this would only be X00 per month at best (it's rare that any post, get much more than a few hundred comments) and quite likely tens on average. There are certainly more than 100 new HN accounts per month. I second the motion ;).

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by douche » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 6:10 AM UTC

innodb1 wrote: post #9

cognizant is firing people in US, top level cleanup

Nice, we're working on trying to sell them some software. I wonder if that is why we haven't a whole lot the last couple weeks...

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by phamilton » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 6:14 AM UTC

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…

Blind was pretty awesome when I was at Yahoo during layoffs. It's died down a bit since though.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by hactually » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 6:16 AM UTC

maverick_iceman wrote: post #65

workerIbe wrote: post #15

I'm the 3rd Architect to be lucky to work with our VP of Product in the last 6 months, the other 2 no longer work here, he seems to end up pissed off Everytime we meet, we'll see...

Which company?

I wouldn't recommend he answer that. VP's are a lot easier to identify than a TL or similar

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by mkteer » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 6:16 AM UTC

My friend's company Iron.io laid off ~20 employees in SF (almost the entire company). Apparently their series A round brought in 12 million just a year ago.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by flukus » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 6:16 AM UTC

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…

> because I think this could help companies and people can change for the better.

The first lesson you'd learn is that these companies would rather shoot the messenger, which would be you in this case.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by orange_county » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 6:17 AM UTC

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

I believe the hiring is a facade. They have been sending out hackerrank tests to every new grad but never planning to follow up. As a matter of fact, they stated that they will "follow up" in December. Any serious company in the Bay Area wouldn't be this slow with hiring if they were not in trouble.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by voltagex_ » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 6:22 AM UTC

jennisNo wrote: post #63

Acorns is not firing people, but has already lost ~15 top performers due to poor executive leadership

Damn, they were making waves here due to screenscraping Commbank and then writing a letter to the Prime Minister about it.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by cyberferret » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 6:24 AM UTC

When I read this, all I could picture was the scene in HBO's 'Silicon Valley' where Gavin Belson sacks his entire Nucleus team, then later inadvertently hires them all back again when he acquires EndFrame, and doesn't realise that he is talking to the same people in the same room about the same product.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by anon2020 » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 6:30 AM UTC

jennisNo wrote: post #63

Acorns is not firing people, but has already lost ~15 top performers due to poor executive leadership

The same is happening to Funding Circle in the UK. The company is still profitable, but a lot of devs are leaving because of certain decisions.