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Re: CircleCI Layoffs

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Post by SkyPuncher »

culi wrote: post #120
SkyPuncher wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you link to that comment? It seems the person's statement I've found is not incongruent with the company also wiping it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33901808 Implication seems to be that they'd have to wipe it themselves

No, that is not the implication.

It's simply stating he plans to have it wiped. It does not make any statement about the companies plans.

IMO, even if my company wiped a laptop they gave to me, I'd do another wipe just to make sure it's perfectly fresh and clean. It's way easier to transfer to a pristine Mac than one that's had all of the initial setup skipped to validate a wipe.

Re: CircleCI Layoffs

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Post by mavchan »

idoh wrote: post #59
solidr53 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What kind of computers did you get to keep? M-based Mac’s?

Yup, a nice MacBook Pro. I have no use for it though, I'm probably just going to wipe it and sell it or give it to someone that needs it.

Pretty generous package. I was laid off last week and didnt get anything close to this.

Re: CircleCI Layoffs

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Post by culi »

SkyPuncher wrote: post #141
culi wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33901808 Implication seems to be that they'd have to wipe it themselves

No, that is not the implication. It's simply stating he plans to have it wiped. It does not make any statement about the companies plans. IMO, even if my company wiped a laptop they gave to me, I'd do another wipe just to make sure it's perfectly fresh and clean. It's way easier to transfer to a pristine Mac than one that's had all of the initial setup skipped to validate a wipe.

Well I guess we have different readings on it then

Re: CircleCI Layoffs

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Post by thirdusername »

015a wrote: post #30

I don't want to turn a discussion surrounding layoffs into a lens about the business itself; it sucks to be laid off, and I wish everyone who was impacted great expediency in finding a new role. But I'm going to anyway: I genuinely don't understand how CircleCI is still a business. Every major code repository provider has CI built in. All of the ones I've interacted with (Github Actions & Gitlab) are just as good as…

This was my exact reaction to. I was a customer for CircleCI for years and it was my go to choice and introduced it to countless companies, they were clearly at first an engineering led company that obsessed about functional programming.

At some point after their series C they became rent-seeking, their support became increasingly distant, and the quality overall started degrading. Then I get an email that we need to pay for seats.. on top of paying for CI minutes.

It was an extra > $500 a month for no additional service, no additional usage, no nothing, and they would not budge on their new pricing plan. So I just moved all the stuff to GitHub who was barely mature enough at that point and never looked back.

Putting the finance department in charge of product decisions is a mistake with long term reproductions and CircleCI is only seeing the results of this. Treating your oldest customers like a financial liability is a mistake.

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