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Hamburg, I guess... ?
Could be, I know alot of developers here who work for GoodGames and InnoGames. I think GG did a batch of firings semi-recently but I don't recall hearing about anybody not being paid. Then again I'm not German so I miss out on some news.
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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
Firing gets rid of the worst. Hiring, at least in theory, pulls in the best. Healthy companies at scale and size equilibrium should be doing both at roughly the same rate, averaged over time.
Fixed it for you.
Something I've seen at at least a couple of companies where it resulted in killing the company, and one of those was the storied Lucent (forced to sell out to Alcatel, which itself didn't fare well, evidently most of it was sold to Nokia in January this year).
The managers even made a point of telling us how their firing a particular key guy showed no one was safe. Well, the same was true of the project, which was de jure and de facto necessary for Lucent's continued existence as an independent entity, it was a media gateway, which along with a media gateway controller such as their very well received Softswitch replaces a unitary switch like their 5ESS.
(It was a very interesting project, BTW, we were working with 5ESS types in Cincinnati, and like that storied system it was a true 5 9's system, no faking it for scheduled maintenance, people expect their telecom systems to be available 24x7 absent acts of God.)
The smart ones have been leaving consistently through the company's history, and recently they had a layoff of around half their staff.
From the sounds of it, almost sounds like a shell company - half baked product that no-one uses, and they've managed to convince investors out of millions in cash.
To me seems just like the dotcom crash all over again - crazy that investors aren't on top of this shit, where's the due diligence / sense checking at?
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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.
How did rewriting the site in another language affect their ranking?
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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.
> In your opinion what hurts morale more? One big round of layoff, or multiple smaller rounds? Both hurt morale. I've seen many rounds of redundancy and layoffs in UK companies and both the huge layoff rounds and the slowly trimming back everywhere. With the big rounds, the "We'll only do this once so we'll do it big and won't do it again" is never true. The whole company knows it's just time but at least you can pre…
There is a big german gamecompany that hasn't paid 300+ employees in 4 months so they are bleeding employees instead of firing them.
There is a big german gamecompany that hasn't paid 300+ employees in 4 months so they are bleeding employees instead of firing them.
Is it Wooga/King games?
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.
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.
argh, spoilers :(
There is a big german gamecompany that hasn't paid 300+ employees in 4 months so they are bleeding employees instead of firing them.
You're using a throwaway so why hiding the name of the company? It could save fellow developers. Is it Wooga/King games?
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