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Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by josep2 »

warcher wrote: post #51

Ah yes, the "startup you work at". Well, I'm probably full for the moment, but a startup that I know is bleeding some in my neck of the woods is MasteryConnect. Chop chop chop. Domo is not looking good, but they probably have money to survive for a bit.

I interviewed at MasteryConnect 2 years ago and their business model seemed doomed.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by MichaelMoser123 »

chrissnell wrote: post #8

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

> Back in the first dotcom bubble, we had FuckedCompany.com

today there is https://www.thelayoff.com/ ; well, it is similar but not quite the same...

is useful if you are working for a company with a rich history of layoffs, it allows to check for recent rumors on the subject.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by slau »

Raed667 wrote: post #98
1474295912 wrote: post #96

VisualMeta GmbH in Berlin. They're a 'start-up' backed by Axel Springer, Berlin. They fired about 60-70 people recently, some of them on their first day of work. Most of their devs come from non-existent countries (China/Eritrea/Pakistan etc) and they're paid abysmally (€32-34k). It's a surprise that this news wasn't covered at all in Berlin start-up press.

34k € is a bad salary in Germany? Because I think it is an average 1st salary in France (or the companies I've been talking to are also planning to get me paid abysmally )

Depends on where you live. If you're near a larger city or not. There's a huge discrepancy in salaries Due to geography (and also massively depends on your skill set, obviously).

To give you a frame of reference, I was pretty well paid in Perpignan after a few years in a company (a bit north of 40k€). The junior devs I hired got south of 24k€.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by majewsky »

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…

I had a similar thing with games magazines a while back. I was subscribed to GameStar (then one of Germany's largest computer game periodicals) in my teenage years, and it always weighed in at about 200-250 pages. I unsubscribed in 2006 as I was too occupied with studying, but picked up an issue in 2011 from the newspaper stand out of nostalgia. I was shocked that it had shrunk down to some 100 pages, and most of the tests were about free-2-play junk. Whole sections were gone, too (e.g. hardware tests IIRC). It's like one of those childhood memories that look really bad in retrospect.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by jomamaxx »

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?

Fired - you did something wrong, incompetent (or pissed someone off) and they are doing it specifically to you.

Laid off - your group is redundant or discontinued, they have no need for you or your team/product, they're closing an overseas business unit, or culling 10% of their staff. You're in the wrong boat at the wrong time.

It has different connotations.

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