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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 legohead »

cyphunk wrote: post #262
legohead wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I was aware of that, but if a company fails to understand it's users' needs, I don't have much faith in them, so I just move on to something else.

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by paulbjensen »

For those in the London office, I'm sorry to hear about the office closure, I've been in the sane position at 2 startups very early on in my career.

The company where I work (Starcount) is looking for people to work in data engineering (Hadoop and Spark), frontend (React), backend (Node) and Salesforce admin. If anyone is interested, my email is paul.jensen@starcount.com, and I'm @paulbjensen on Twitter.

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by LyalinDotCom »

I'm not surprised they are not doing well. I dont wish them bad things dont get me wrong but if you are an active user of their service (like I am) and a developer then you're bound to ask the question once in a while "so what is their dev team doing exactly?" because it doesn't seem like much at all.

They really need to invest into building a more compelling product, there are some amazing scenarios they can tackle here but they seem to have no interest in it or maybe funding to pull it off.

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by snthd »

legohead wrote: post #234
acchow wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

http://www.streamkeys.com is a chrome extension that gives global hotkeys for many streaming media sites (including SC).

I wish there was a firefox port.

Re: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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Post by sanj »

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…

I'm also hiring in New York for Time Out. I would like to think that engineers from Sound Cloud may be excited by the music, theater, film, and event domain. Drop me a line at [hn_username]@timeout.com

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Post by adamstober »

dmnd wrote: post #259
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.

If any SoundClouders are reading this thread, consider Flexport! Flexport is a freight forwarder, which is a really old industry. We're bringing it to the information era. (It turns out computers are really good at solving information problems.) Flexport is growing the engineering team of ~35 in our downtown SF office. It's a great time to join: we have 20% MoM growth and we're about to enter the peak season where re…

Flexport is great, and we're proud to have your team as one of our awesome http://www.Layoff-Aid.com startups that are already on our hiring network in SF.

Thank you for posting here, for making yourself available directly.

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Post by hocuspocus »

expertentipp wrote: post #44

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

That is silly.

Big tech hubs are bound to see startups fail, especially leaking ships that never turn a profit.

Berlin isn't perfect but whatever happens to SoundCloud doesn't really say anything about its tech scene. Were SoundCloud be London/NYC/SF based, it would have gone under much, much quicker.

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Post by rahim »

jkarraker wrote: post #197
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.

Alto Pharmacy is hiring in SF! We are a tech-focused pharmacy, and we are focused on building software that makes a meaningful impact on people's lives by providing a better pharmacy experience. We've raise $23 million to work toward our mission of building the best pharmacy for everybody, and we're looking for other caring, scrappy, humble engineers to join us! We are looking for full stack generalists, and our tech…

Could you add your e-mail or some other way of contacting you?

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Post by Pelham »

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.

HERE has several openings for Scala positions: https://here.com/en/careers/careers-home

You guys probably know, but we're located 5 minutes from the Factory :)

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