Ask HN: Who is firing? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by danieltillett » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 4:44 AM UTC

eropple wrote: post #25

gspetr wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder why there isn't a new incarnation of it. Are people afraid of lawsuits?

I registered unicorngrill.com on a lark for exactly this, but I'm allergic to lawyers.

We need to see someone follow sci-hub.cc lead and put the server and public face in Russia.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by Animats » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 4:44 AM UTC

chrissnell wrote: post #8

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

I had Downside's Deathwatch, a simple automated cash flow analysis.[1] It's still up, frozen in time. All those "Chart is not available for this symbol" entries are dead.

In the first dot-com boom, many companies went public before profitability. So anyone could see how much cash they had and how fast they were burning through it. I just calculated how much time they had left until cash went to zero. That's the "death date" listed. It was embarrassingly accurate.

[1] http://www.downside.com/deathwatch.html

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by jbyers » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 4:46 AM UTC

ronilan wrote: post #17

Seems like a lot of bay area companies are "firing on all cylinders" but Tesla is clearly not.

rimshot I can't tell if that's an electric car joke or a condemnation of Tesla or both.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by Animats » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 4:47 AM UTC

dredmorbius wrote: post #30

pathompong wrote: post #2

Thomson Reuters is. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-01/thomson-re...

The newspaper / print media industry generally is doing abysmally poorly. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/business/media/buyouts-wal... Submitted yesterday, didn't go anywhere: https://news.ycombinator.co/item?id=12834583 I've been picking up newspapers and magazines and been quietly horrified at how thin they are. I'm no fan of advertising, but I know it's how they pay the bills, and there are no ads there. The Ch…

The Chicago Tribune renamed its holding company "Tronc" a few months back. It didn't help. Gannett just declined to buy them a few hours ago. Tribune Tower is being converted to condos.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by nwenzel » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 4:52 AM UTC

malbs wrote: post #12

chrissnell wrote: post #8

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

Ahh FuckedCompany.com I remember when I sat in an interview for a position at marchFIRST in Melbourne, Australia. And when it came time in the interview for them to ask "Have you got any questions for us?" "Yeah, look this is kind of awkward, but I've seen marchFIRST mentioned quite a number of times on this website called fuckedcompany.com... Is that indicative of any issues I should be aware about?" "Oh, don't worr…

I worked at marchFirst back in the day. Even had the chance to meet Bob Bernard. That experience shaped how I run the company I co-founded 3 years ago. M1's number one problem was a culture of spending money without any thought of a return. Which was probably really odd for folks on the Whitman Hart side of the merger. It really was a merger of two opposite cultures.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by dgc » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 4:54 AM UTC

alasdair_ wrote: post #23

The DNC. At least once the election is over so it doesn't look terrible for all concerned.

I imagine that will be the RNC as well. Kind of a tradition in an election year ^_^

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by frogstomp19 » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 4:57 AM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by mavelikara » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 4:58 AM UTC

innodb1 wrote: post #9

cognizant is firing people in US, top level cleanup

At what level?

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by eghad » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 4:58 AM UTC

dredmorbius wrote: post #30

pathompong wrote: post #2

Thomson Reuters is. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-01/thomson-re...

The newspaper / print media industry generally is doing abysmally poorly. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/business/media/buyouts-wal... Submitted yesterday, didn't go anywhere: https://news.ycombinator.co/item?id=12834583 I've been picking up newspapers and magazines and been quietly horrified at how thin they are. I'm no fan of advertising, but I know it's how they pay the bills, and there are no ads there. The Ch…

Sorry to dump on your aside, but the media arm isn't affected. The Finance/Risk news (for financial clients) division is the one being downsized, and they were profitable.

The parent mentions it, but here's the brief from their outlet: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-thomsonreuters-results-idU...

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by chipperyman573 » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 5:05 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 doubt people being fired from Vine are prevented from applying to Twitter, this just gives them an eas/y/ier way to vet the good ones.