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Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by lukeschlather »

chrisseaton wrote: post #39
notdang wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

for me it's a sign that marketing people took over the company

I don't get why marketing would care about a minor detail in the UI after you're already using the product?

The detail is that you have two people: one is paying for the product and one is not. The one who is paying shares a file with the one who doesn't pay. Dropbox provides a worse experience for the person who doesn't pay.

This is in contrast to services like Zoom or Google Drive where part of the sales pitch is that you get a seamless experience when communicating with people - even if the person you're talking to might not be paying, you can guarantee because you are paying their experience won't be impaired, at least for the duration of your interaction.

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by nobleach »

chrisseaton wrote: post #31
nobleach wrote: post #2

I was JUST seeing job opportunities in my LinkedIn from these folks. That's just careless.

I don't understand why you think cutting some jobs means they can't possibly also need to hire for other jobs?

For the reasons stated in other places. Seeing a company that's cutting a large portion of their workforce is just bad optics. Yes, YOU may perceive it as wise business, but those who are looking to have a job in a year might not feel good about hiring on with a company that just had a layoff of a significant part of their workforce. What's to stop them from laying you off when their new plan doesn't work out as well? Companies that are doing well do not do large sweeping cuts.They tend to do smaller more precise cuts. This one seems like desperation.

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by nobleach »

AlwaysRock wrote: post #7
nobleach wrote: post #2

I was JUST seeing job opportunities in my LinkedIn from these folks. That's just careless.

Lot's of companies have to make cuts in some areas while continuing to hire in another. Especially a company the size of Dropbox where there are many products and teams. However I agree that its a bad look and often tough to hire when you are in the news about layoffs.

Right, it's all about the optics. It smacks of desperation.

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by josefresco »

Clients share files with me using Dropbox so I need a Dropbox account. My Dropbox account is now close to full and I have to "manage it". I don't like how files shared with me count against my quota and I don't like having to babysit a service my clients use to share files. I wonder how many business owners "just pay" to make the nag messaging go away.

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by F00Fbug »

As a longtime Linux user I felt snubbed for when Dropbbox decided that ext4 was the only file system that they were going to support. God forbid that Red Hat decide that XFS was the default file system in RHEL7 and Dropbox couldn't make the effort to support the premier Linux distro?

I'm 100% on Syncthing these days. It's not perfect, but it gets the job done and I'm happy there's no big company involved. I set it up my way!

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by gresrun »

prionassembly wrote: post #58
whywhywhywhy wrote: post #22

Knew the writing was on the wall for this company the moment I had to dig into a drop down chevron to find the download button for a file shared with me on Dropbox. Making it frustrating to collaborate with paying customers of your platform is a sure sign something is rotten.

Dropbox had a discontinuous price increase a couple of years ago that soured me on them. I'm still a user -- the price is still a couple of notches below marginal utility. But I no longer recommend it. Something similar happened to Evernote -- I stopped liking the brand when I started to feel price-gouged. And then I quit on them shortly after when the apps were not snappy and well-organized to my liking (at the pric…

I believe you’re referring to “Notecards”. In the US they come in 2 common sizes: 5”x7” & 4”x6”

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by brainzap »

demygale wrote: post #60

>“The steps we’re taking today are painful, but necessary,” Dropbox CEO Drew Houston said in an employee memo Wednesday. Did they consider the "painful, but necessary" step of not paying the CEO $110 million salary?

Thats not his salary, his salary is about 700k I guess.
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