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Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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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.

Can you say why? I don't understand the link.

It's the fish?

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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post #113

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What caused you to quit SC?

The amount of music in my feed and the trouble of curating it all. I found new songs I loved every day, but being a programmer, and having to switch to the SC browser window/tab to hit shift-right-arrow to skip a song, or space to pause it, became too troublesome. I eventually switched to Spotify, since I could have global keyboard shortcuts for the app. If SoundCloud had a desktop app I would use that instead of Spo…

I use this desktop app, opensource and cross platform, constantly

https://github.com/Soundnode/soundnode-app

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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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.

Would love to chat with anyone from SoundCloud interested in earnest.com. We're building the future of finance. I'm a tech lead for one of the teams, feel free to email directly: alex (dot) cusack (at) earnest (dot) com

https://www.earnest.com/careers/#/engineering/730199/sr-soft...

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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have someone lined up to buy them and removing duplicated jobs to make themselves more appealing?

Normally such layoffs are made when an acquisition closes.

They're done in preparation as well, in order to juke the burn rate numbers by reducing overhead. Make no mistake, an acquisition would likely result in further cuts (acq is always bad for the little guy) if not a complete wind-down, but cutting staff historically does make a company more attractive to acquirers.

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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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.

ClassPass is hiring engineers in both New York and San Francisco.

We're a marketplace that connects people with studios and gyms so they can take yoga, martial arts, or other classes near them. We have a solid working business model and are growing. We're hiring for backend, frontend, full-stack, and infrastructure roles.

I'm a technical lead in SF and happy to talk to anyone on either coast. Contact me at (my HN username)@classpass.com or apply directly at https://classpass.com/jobs/openings.

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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post #263

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.

Would love to chat with anyone from SoundCloud interested in earnest.com. We're building the future of finance. I'm a tech lead for one of the teams, feel free to email directly: alex (dot) cusack (at) earnest (dot) com https://www.earnest.com/careers/#/engineering/730199/sr-soft...

Looking for smart people interested in solving hard problems. Stack is JavaScript/Node and Java, but flexible on background in those specific languages

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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ITT no one admitting that the problem with the recorded music industry is now the fans who expect bits that make sound to be free while other bits are paid. Spotify, Pandora, and Soundcloud fixed just about everything that people said was wrong with the industry from the consumer point of view. And don't give me that line about the labels screwing artists because thanks to fans who won't even pay for a premium subscr…

Why must the model of terrestrial radio always be left out of "customers are cheapskates" harangues?

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Herval, cala-te

heh didn't expect to see my name on a post about a company I left aeons ago, but there you are - someone proving OP's point perfectly

(ps I wasn't a director and I'm not OP, but obviously still one of many in the aforementioned mafia's hitlist)

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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I cannot comment on Spotify, but I pretty much dislike all Youtube recommendations. I get sometimes different version of the same song again followed by some other song that is also popular but has nothing to do with what I'm listening to followed by something else I "liked before" but obviously don't want to listen to since I already heard it many times. That is followed by a different version of the same song again…

My biggest gripe with YT recommendations is that songs I hit dislike on and always browse away from are constantly placed in my autoplay queue. There are some songs out there that I just hate and there's just no way for me to avoid them. I've never had this issue with Spotify - mostly because of how differently its recommendations work - and it's probably one of the biggest reasons I've abandoned YT for Spotify.

YT recommendations in general is pretty rubbish
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