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…
Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce
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Yeah that's generous by most standards.
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#12There are going to be a lot of tough decisions for people who have to decide whether to buy their Airbnb options or lose them. I bet a lot of people at Airbnb are wishing they went public before all this.
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#13The 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.
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#14Maybe they could pay some UK corporation tax next
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#15If any iOS engineers from Airbnb are in this thread and looking for what's next, happy to chat. Email in bio.
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#16>According to Chesky’s missive, Airbnb anticipates its 2020 revenue coming in under 50% of 2019’s total
Very optimistic. They should be happy to get around 25% of 2019 totals.
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#17They are definitely doing right by their employees, which is commendable.
Agreed. Shoutout to AirBnB management who made the best of the tough situation and did the right thing.
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#18What 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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#19It feels bad that this happened to one of the companies with a very good engineering culture. The stuff they have put out in the open either on GitHub or through their blogs is a testament to that. I think any company will be lucky to have these folks.
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#20Finally some good covid news.