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PagerDuty to Lay Off 7% of Staff; Revenue Officer to Exit

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Re: PagerDuty to Lay Off 7% of Staff; Revenue Officer to Exit

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Post by scifibestfi »

WJW wrote: post #3

I know it's in fashion to have a cutesy name for your employees these days, but "Dutonian" is really stretching it haha.

Oh shit, here we go again.

The Dutonians join the Googlers, Xooglers, Nooglers, Metamates, Amazonians, Mozillians, Stripes, Tweeps, Peeps, Veeps, Elasticians, SoundHounders, Vimeans, Rackers, Krakenites, Latticians and Plaids.

Re: PagerDuty to Lay Off 7% of Staff; Revenue Officer to Exit

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Post by jscheel »

> Despite executing well over the last eight quarters, sustaining high growth and dramatically improving operating margins, there is more to do to secure PagerDuty’s future.

Thank you for all your hard work and execution - please be sure to pick up your pink slip on the way out the door.

Re: PagerDuty to Lay Off 7% of Staff; Revenue Officer to Exit

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Post by Rapzid »

darkwizard42 wrote: post #7

I think I respect that at least one of the executives whose responsibility it was to NOT let this happen is being exited out. Google and others have babbled on about executives taking full responsibility for the layoffs, but I don't see any of the key SVPs or VPs taking hits on failing in their leadership. Also I understand they say to pursue other opportunities, but I think the reason for the CRO departure feels tra…

Maybe those other shops don't throw people under the bus so publicly. Wondering if following up 6-12 months later to see who left to "pursue other opportunities".

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Post by _joel »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #9

I never understood PagerDuty. Isn't it just IFTTT with SMS and email at scale? What is their moat even?

Scheduling, Groups, Escalation. Yea you could probably do something with IFTTT but I'd rather just pay a little bit and not deal with the hastle.

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Post by s1artibartfast »

darkwizard42 wrote: post #7

I think I respect that at least one of the executives whose responsibility it was to NOT let this happen is being exited out. Google and others have babbled on about executives taking full responsibility for the layoffs, but I don't see any of the key SVPs or VPs taking hits on failing in their leadership. Also I understand they say to pursue other opportunities, but I think the reason for the CRO departure feels tra…

I think that is because it still unclear if executives actually failed in their responsibilities to shareholders and the bottom line.

I think you can make a strong argument that they failed some sort of responsibility to the employee expectations by over hiring, but that is different.

Are boards and shareholders even dissatisfied with executives right now?

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Post by linuxftw »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #9

I never understood PagerDuty. Isn't it just IFTTT with SMS and email at scale? What is their moat even?

Their moat is the same as Jira's. Despite being expensive, and easily replaced by a bevy of alternatives, management are familiar with the name and purchase it.
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