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SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by EpicEng »

leoedin wrote: post #75
aaronlevin wrote: post #19

SoundCloud employee here. If you are hiring, please reach out to people from SoundCloud. The decisions of who to let go were not based on performance. A lot of amazing people, both attitude and technically.

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Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by tomhallett »

aaronlevin wrote: post #19

SoundCloud employee here. If you are hiring, please reach out to people from SoundCloud. The decisions of who to let go were not based on performance. A lot of amazing people, both attitude and technically.

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Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by justanton »

vr46 wrote: post #55
expertentipp wrote: post #44

The wonder child of Berlin's startup scene is deceasing. Says a lot about the scene unfortunately.

Do elaborate, please - I have often considered moving but various things people have said keep putting me off, such as a mildly racist culture.

If you're deliberately looking for it — you will definitely find/experience it at some point.

In my personal experience, Berlin is very foreigner-friendly.

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by pinaceae »

aaronlevin wrote: post #19

SoundCloud employee here. If you are hiring, please reach out to people from SoundCloud. The decisions of who to let go were not based on performance. A lot of amazing people, both attitude and technically.

You think anyone of you guys would like to work in the SF East Bay?

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by mgurlitz »

doublerebel wrote: post #5

It's been a downhill trend ever since trending likes were replaced by reposts. Trending likes actually showed which tunes my friends found most interesting. Reposts allowed a single user to spam a feed with their personal taste. Then repost bots were allowed to require repost to unlock a free download and now discovery on SoundCloud is almost dead. My friends who are successful producers but refuse to play the bot an…

I wasn't a fan of the UI refresh for the same reason, so I made my own alternate homepage which sorts the feed by artist and de-emphasizes reposts (http://gurlitz.org/soundcloud-digest/). Unfortunately like you said, content also dried up around the same time.

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by smrtinsert »

dustinmoris wrote: post #22

They also laid off the entire New York team and at least some individuals in Berlin: https://twitter.com/pje_txt/status/882977097232338947 https://twitter.com/katalunia_/status/882992899893460993 > Well, SoundCloud just laid off all of its New York engineering > Literally the entire payments and subscriptions team, ads-eng, monetization engineering, everybody > Not really clear to me how the execs think this company…

That says a lot. German labor laws protect their citizens strongly. I'm pretty sure they would always choose to get rid of other country staff first.

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by Roritharr »

aaronlevin wrote: post #19

SoundCloud employee here. If you are hiring, please reach out to people from SoundCloud. The decisions of who to let go were not based on performance. A lot of amazing people, both attitude and technically.

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Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by alydenardo »

aaronlevin wrote: post #19

SoundCloud employee here. If you are hiring, please reach out to people from SoundCloud. The decisions of who to let go were not based on performance. A lot of amazing people, both attitude and technically.

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Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by robk »

Udo_Schmitz wrote: post #53
nodesocket wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also signals the difficulty in building large companies in the European market. I've been to Berlin a handful of times, and even tried to raise money from Berlin investors... Needless to say it was a very frustrating process. They are very conservative and risk adverse. Additionally the bureaucracy and "red-tape" hampers business.

>Additionally the bureaucracy and "red-tape" hampers business. Would love to hear details.

One word : notaries. Ridiculous and anachronistic.

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by j_s »

pyronite wrote: post #49

19 days ago an employee of SoundCloud posted an Ask HN about deferred salary reviews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14575627

It's on the list!

Ask HN: As an employee of a company, how do you assess its health? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14653564

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14653741

Other indicators: delayed salary reviews

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