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Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce

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Re: Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce

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Separated employees will receive 14 weeks of pay, and one more week for each year served at the company (rounding partial years up). The firm is also dropping its one-year equity cliff so that employees who are laid off with under 12 months of tenure can buy their vested options; Airbnb will also provide 12 months of health insurance through COBRA in the United States, and health care coverage through 2020 in the res…

Yeah that's generous by most standards.

Re: Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce

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The most famous unicorn bleeds today.

A lot of tech is getting hit, it seems like Airbnb is more in the spotlight

Why do people consider AirBnB tech? They are a services company with a website connecting external parties. This isn't hard tech, this is marketing.

Edit: It seems people are under the impression that because you have lots of technology that is required to run your company you are a technology company. I don't believe that to be true in this day and age, tire distributors probably have more technology requirements then AirBnB does but we don't consider them tech companies. By the same token I wouldn't consider Expedia/Travelocity etc to be tech companies either the use tech to provide a service.

Re: Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce

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What isn’t commonly known is that Airbnb has one of the most biased engineering hiring practices in the industry. Chinese individuals at the company regularly share interview questions through wechat groups. Preferring to hire their own. Extremely dishonest hiring culture is pervasive through engineering. Don’t believe me? Look at their engineers on LinkedIn
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