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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 whvv »

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 arupchak »

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.

PagerDuty is hiring in SF and remote as well. Feel free to get in touch directly or head to https://www.pagerduty.com/careers/

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by cagataygurturk »

Geralt_Encore wrote: post #240
flgr wrote: post #214

To 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.lev…

Any chances for Android positions in Berlin office or whole mobile development team is SF based?

We are hiring Android devs at eBay Berlin!

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by cyberferret »

Sad to hear - I have been on SoundCloud since their very early days, and concur that they seem to have lost their way somewhat.

When I first joined, it was a great place to share my music creations, and I enjoyed discovering other new artists who created the same sort of music I did too. There was always a lot of interaction and positive comments and I actually made some SC 'friend' in that time that I kept in contact with.

However, of late, I feel like I am throwing my music into a deep, dark hole in the ground. There are still the odd comments and interactions, but nowhere on the level that it was about 4 or 5 years ago.

You can actually see this from the stats on my channel [0], when you look at stuff I uploaded 3 or 4 years ago as compared to what I have uploaded in the past few months.

It will be sad to see SoundCloud go. For me, my channel still is a kind of roadmap of how my amateur music career has progressed in the past 10 years or so and I will never be able to recreate that on another platform...

[0] - https://soundcloud.com/cyberferret

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by dyim »

Couldn't find out from the article or the linked blog post - what were the responsibilities of the 173 laid-off employees? How many employees does SoundCloud have, and what roles do they have? Clearly they're not all devs - do they work in artist relations? customer support? content creation? marketing? etc.

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Post by cerved »

kogepathic wrote: post #276
cerved wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remixing is not covered by fair use :/

> Remixing is not covered by fair use :/ Well, that's good to know and also super shitty. I guess like many other services, once they got the attention of the recording industry it was only a matter of time until they were forced into a licensing agreement.

Fair use is strange and doesn't have a very strong standing when it comes to IP

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by tragic »

RickS wrote: post #135
acchow wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What caused you to quit SC?

Cultural and product focuses that emphasized engagement quantity rather than engagement quality. Comments would be littered with things like "hey, great, check out my stuff!" That type of shallow "like for like" culture is absolutely cancerous for what was previously a very maker-heavy audience.

> Comments would be littered with things like "hey, great, check out my stuff!"

> That type of shallow "like for like" culture is absolutely cancerous for what was previously a very maker-heavy audience.

Man, I've been in there since day one practically and it was always like that, as has been every service of that kind I've ever used (hands up anyone who ever maintained an MP3.com playlist). Music runs on shameless self promotion. Players gonna play. Etc.

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Post by kafkaesq »

delegate wrote: post #224
throwaway52342 wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Could you go into a bit more detail ? What did the Brazilians do / change ? As for ThoughtWorks, I've been at an interview with them and got a strong cultish vibe from the whole thing. Especially when they made it clear that their 'social responsibility pillar' is cool and all, but "we're still a commercial company that needs to make a profit so don't imagine you'll be doing charity here"... I'm curious how the peopl…

Yeah, that's pretty much dead give-away that you're in some kind of stealth cult environment:

"We're all big believers in X here. But actually, we don't really believe in X"

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Post by cyberferret »

samcat116 wrote: post #206

Things I hate about Soundcloud: 1. They haven't updated their iOS app seemingly in years. It lacks basic controls and makes it impossible to listen to more than a single song at a time. 2. The really shitty "artist engagement" sites that force you to follow 20 other social media accounts in order to get a download. I know this isn't Soundcloud directly, but they're the ones letting artists link off to these basically…

I'll add (5) - They haven't fixed a bug in their 'Spotlight' editing widget. Trying to drag and drop to re-sort your 5 highlighted Spotlight tracks in your profile always crashes Chrome, and has done so for years, despite me (and many others) filing multiple bug reports.

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by kafkaesq »

flgr wrote: post #214

To 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.lev…

The latter two positions say "San Francisco" [but they can also be in Berlin],

Then, seriously -- have someone fix that, right now.

Anytime I get a sense that ad copy and the hiring team aren't communicating on some basic aspect of the role description -- that's always a big red flag.

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