One of the reason of firing people is to align the company with a new goal. Most of this companies are firing because they want and they need new roles in the organization, and are going to contract new people soon. It should not be a negative thing.
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#32One of the reason of firing people is to align the company with a new goal. Most of this companies are firing because they want and they need new roles in the organization, and are going to contract new people soon. It should not be a negative thing.
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#33in most countries firing = fired for cause what you are talking about is redundancy
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#34Should this be considered Fucked Company 2.0, nine years after the original site closed? Edit: The original name was apparently also a pun (Fast Company).
Was going to say the exact same thing.
I wonder what pud is up to?
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#35One of the reason of firing people is to align the company with a new goal. Most of this companies are firing because they want and they need new roles in the organization, and are going to contract new people soon. It should not be a negative thing.
Even if they plan on hiring new people it's still interesting to see what kind of people they fire. If you think you match their profuile, don't even bother to apply.
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#36Might be useful for headhunters?
Actually we used this strategy for a company we were grounding. We just connected to some start-up community and the moment we heard a start-up banked up, we showed in the doorsteps and asked for the resumes.
We had really successful hires, picking very good people. Most were happy to continue in our start-up. We had good funding and that helped.
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#37Please pardon my negativity but i'm tired of this trend of taking something that span discussion on HN and making it into an app as soon as possible, then posting it on HN. It's getting out of control since the old geek jobs article on Indiehackers. There's now at least one of these posts per week and they're less and less interesting. It's not showing cool tech or a cool idea, it's just trying to capitalize on the i…
> Please make it stop
Ignore posts that don't interest you, but don't discourage people from starting side projects. You never know what these side projects morph into.
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#38Quick note: on mobile, the footer is statically placed on the page and covers some stuff. Interesting.
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#39Please pardon my negativity but i'm tired of this trend of taking something that span discussion on HN and making it into an app as soon as possible, then posting it on HN. It's getting out of control since the old geek jobs article on Indiehackers. There's now at least one of these posts per week and they're less and less interesting. It's not showing cool tech or a cool idea, it's just trying to capitalize on the i…
Better than having "Ask HN: Who's Firing This Week?" threads every week, one for each topic that gets semi-regularly asked about. Think of it as a spam siphon.
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#40Please pardon my negativity but i'm tired of this trend of taking something that span discussion on HN and making it into an app as soon as possible, then posting it on HN. It's getting out of control since the old geek jobs article on Indiehackers. There's now at least one of these posts per week and they're less and less interesting. It's not showing cool tech or a cool idea, it's just trying to capitalize on the i…
Then don't participate. I actually find this idea very interesting and would love to subscribe to notifications about which companies are laying off workers or see trends about how many people are being laid off per week/month. As an investor, this is a nice data point that shows the health of the tech sector. What exactly is wrong with capitalizing on interest here? Sounds smart to me - you know you're solving a rea…
I agree that it's smart and that's why it doesn't sit well with me : it's hacking community dynamics ( know interests and an encouraging attitude toward personal projects) into a revenue channel. A possible long-term consequence - HN slowly turning into a proto-producthunt - and a short-term one - a decrease in quality -concern me.
That being said, i do see the interest of the indicator. My comment is more about the trend highlighted by this post.