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SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices
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#212SoundCloud 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.
Hiring at McDonald's Digital in San Francisco. I believe we have some London roles as well. Let me know if anyone is interested!
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#213I was a director of an engineering department for SoundCloud for a time and left several years ago. Frankly none of this should be surprising: nobody there could figure out a product definition nor a monetization plan. What is more: the engineering organization at SoundCloud at large was completely fractured and suffered from in-fighting. Nobody trusted anyone across organizations. There was no shortage of bullying e…
follow the money: http://philcalcado.com/2017/06/26/on_leaving_digitalocean.ht...
As they say in the German, der Fisch stinkt vom Kopf her (a fish rots from the head down). This man bears a tremendous amount of responsibility for everything described above.
Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices
#214To the many able people who worked for SoundCloud in Berlin:
Twitch Berlin is hiring. We're looking for data scientists and distributed systems engineers working on one of the largest live video CDNs in the world at a huge scale that makes things interesting:
* Data Scientist, Fraud/Video: https://jobs.lever.co/twitch/17b5882c-6be0-41cd-a6ac-45b948e...
* Distributed Systems Engineer - Live Video CDN: https://jobs.lever.co/twitch/8929e219-138d-473c-8acd-4fcc3e0...
* Senior Software Engineer - Live Video CDN: https://jobs.lever.co/twitch/2fae3239-fe4d-4582-bfdf-7d43727...
Primary language is Golang so DSEs from SoundCloud are likely to be a great fit!
The latter two positions say "San Francisco", but we have a growing engineering office in Berlin with people working on the live video CDN and fraud detection. These positions can be filled in Berlin and we'd be very happy to do so (helps us grow the Berlin office).
Happy to answer any questions you might have. Hope this will help some of the folks affected by the lay off.
Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices
#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're hiring in SF for a few roles: ruby/elixir, js, machine learning. Team of peers with collaborative process. If you are a frontend dev and hate speculative hiring phone calls, you can jump straight to coding excecise: https://github.com/Tout/tout_fe_interview http://corp.tout.com/careers Ping me at tom@tout.com if interested.
Why do engineers in good standing at SoundCloud have to do coding exercises? Our industry is annoying.
I really don't see much wrong with a 1-2 hour coding exercise. I'm really averse to "projects" that are supposed to span more time though, since I have a full time job and also a life besides.
Others have mentioned engineers not being able to do fizzbuzz, and that is certainly the most important part. Another one is, I've personally worked in larger orgs where "engineers" stick around for years, but haven't really done any solid coding whatsoever in years. They use tools developed by others to "assist" their team, but are actually the least productive people. One of the strategies that help this is by not automating certain repetitive tasks, so that it seems to require the attention of a full time engineer. e.g. I knew a person whose job day in and out was clicking in the Jenkins UI to run the jobs (!).
Of course this is not universal. But a small coding exercise is a good compromise imo.
Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices
#216I was a director of an engineering department for SoundCloud for a time and left several years ago. Frankly none of this should be surprising: nobody there could figure out a product definition nor a monetization plan. What is more: the engineering organization at SoundCloud at large was completely fractured and suffered from in-fighting. Nobody trusted anyone across organizations. There was no shortage of bullying e…
Pretty much spot on.
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#217Lets start with how awkward their API registration is:
SoundCloud Application Registration
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNxc82RJuzC0DnISat...
Of course they turn you down for requesting access to implement a legitimate feature (listing the top most listened tracks from an artist).
Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices
#218I was a director of an engineering department for SoundCloud for a time and left several years ago. Frankly none of this should be surprising: nobody there could figure out a product definition nor a monetization plan. What is more: the engineering organization at SoundCloud at large was completely fractured and suffered from in-fighting. Nobody trusted anyone across organizations. There was no shortage of bullying e…
I was a long-time SC engineer and can confirm, the influx of Brazilians and especially former ThoughtWorks folks was the inflection point in the destruction of the engineering organization. Conniving and intensely political, they absolutely ruined what was a compassionate, innovative, and productive culture.
Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices
#219SoundCloud 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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#220Oh. I remember a post on HN from SC employee couple weeks ago asking if he/she should stay given that salary reviews have been postponed. In retrospect it seems he/she should have left.
Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14575627
I was actually thinking the same thing. My general advice after being at a company that went through multiple rounds of layoffs within 4 years: Get your resume together and start networking when you have any of the following scenarios: new management, new consultants, in acquisition talks, in a cash crunch.