GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
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GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
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#2Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
#3Wow what an odd coincidence both git companies doing layoffs on the same day.
Also interesting that GitHub is so separate from Microsoft that they are doing their own layoffs and weren’t included in the larger Microsoft layoffs.
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#4I assume this is due to synergies from using Windows instead of whatever.
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#5This really is the techpocalypse, huh? I’m young (35) but I’ve never seen layoffs so continuous. I wonder how far into the year this will go and if we’ll ever come back. Maybe companies truly will start offshoring.
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#6Gitlab and Github look like they are forked from the same branch.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/09/gitlab-layoffs-company-to-cu...
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#7Fortune now confirming: https://fortune.com/2023/02/09/github-is-laying-off-10-of-st...
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#8Is this in addition to the 10,000 people Microsoft announced in it's layoffs 3-weeks ago?
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#9both git companies doing layoffs
has atlassian done them too
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#10This really is the techpocalypse, huh? I’m young (35) but I’ve never seen layoffs so continuous. I wonder how far into the year this will go and if we’ll ever come back. Maybe companies truly will start offshoring.
You missed them by that (tiny-fingers-gap) much.
I'm just old enough to have witnessed the dot-com crash a few years before I went into industry; this feels very similar. In fact, it feels a little less intense; the dot-com crash was about an entire business model consolidating under an absolute handful of winners (example: most independent online stores went "We can't compete with Amazon" and bankrupted, laying off everyone) while this one seems to be a lot more "All these firms will continue to operate but they don't think they need to employ this many people to do it."
It will be interesting to see if the consequence is new startups competing with the incumbents as those laid off find each other and some capital or if the consequence will be something else.